Word: luridness
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...would never again fight outside the U. S. General Butler's sensational tongue had not been heard in the nation's Press for more than a week when he cornered a reporter for the Philadelphia Record and the New York Post, poured into his ears the lurid tale that he had been offered leadership of a Fascist Putsch, scheduled for next year...
When their Lordships rose, the sedition-squelcher had passed second reading after lurid revelations by Baron Allen of Hurtwood, a close friend of Scot MacDonald. "A plot has been discovered to seize the British Broadcasting House and make a coup d'état like that attempted in Vienna last July," began Lord Allen. He ended by admitting that the plotters "went no further than to think of preparation of plans...
...Stop Sinclair movement," wrote Scripps-Howard Newshawk Max Stern, "has become a phobia, lacking humor, fairness and even a sense of reality." He reported a blizzard of anti-Sinclair pamphlets in Los Angeles. One showed a lurid Russian figure waving a red flag over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle...
Died. Edward West ("Daddy") Browning. 59, eccentric Manhattan real-estate tycoon and orphan fancier; of a heart attack following pneumonia and cerebral hemorrhage; in Scarsdale, N. Y. His antics, matrimonial and otherwise, with Frances ("Peaches") Heenan (see p. 53) and other girls adopted by him, made bales of lurid copy, sent Manhattan tabloid circulation soaring...
Right here in Harvard Square there is a man who compares favorably with Lionel Strongfort, Earle Liederman, Charles Atlas and all the others who advertise regularly in Bernarr McFadden's lurid periodicals. But the fact that this gentleman confines himself almost entirely to Harvard students and portly professors, lends an air of respectability to his course in physical development...