Word: luridness
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...reader market for the Thaw story had been fairly well exhausted. Yet last week the New York Daily News, with the biggest circulation in the U. S., popped out with a new serial-Evelyn Nesbit's Untold Story. Printed in daily installments, it was the text of a lurid book called Prodigal Days, by Evelyn Nesbit, published last month by Julian Messner...
Another chapter is about to be written in the lurid history of Joao Frederico Normano, big-time German counter feiting swindler and former Harvard professor, who yesterday, at his final hearing, brought a declaration into federal court claiming that under the American-German extradition treaty he should have been discharged from bondage last May instead of being deprived of his freedom up until...
...even from the mouths of these obscure individuals was alarmist Dr. Wirt able, on the stand, to substantiate his lurid allegations. None of them had actually told the 60-year-old educator that the America of Washington, Lincoln, et al. would have to be destroyed. None had said that they sought to introduce a U. S. Soviet by "thwarting our then evident recovery." The tissue of the story sagged still further when Dr. Wirt, the glare of Klieg lights pitilessly burnishing his baldish brow, confessed that he had "done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been...
...large room in Manhattan's Grand Central Art Galleries were hung last week more than 100 lurid canvases. Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times had suggested the exhibition, Mrs. John Sloan, the artist's wife, had arranged it and Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt had consented to be a patroness. Every one of its pictures was painted in prison...
...recent questionable left on the undergraduate door-sill by the Harvard Critic reminds us that that defunct publication is stirring within its whited sepulchre. With what rosy promises they beguiled the eager freshmen into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate...