Word: luridness
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There is no need to go on. This is the making of a crusader. But when the Vagabond had finished it he was reconciled to the fate of "Munsey's" and willing to confess that the moral which once accompanied every lurid fable had slipped his memory. So, conscious of the error of his ways, he abandons his golden dream, his plans for the future of the Harvard Critic, and return to "Fanny Hill," the only safe resort of those in search of literary excitement...
...certain extent-what Gertrude Stein is. but it will leave pedestrian readers still puzzling their heads over why this obviously shrewd and salty old lady, whose sentences may seem rather primer-like but are just as lucid as a primer's, should have gathered such a lurid reputation as murderess of the King's English. Such readers should remember that in Alice B. Toklas Authoress Stein is on her best behavior. If they are sufficiently curious to look up some of her wilder work, this is the kind of thing they may find...
Havana settled down. Lurid stories of massacre, revolution and Negro uprisings continued to filter in to the capital from down the island. Investigating these New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Tom Pettey took a three-day motor trip into the interior, found little evidence. Day after his return revolvers and rifles were cracking in Havana, but the shots were fired in the air. By a single blanket decree the Government of small Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes declared the Machado administration and all its acts since May 1929 unconstitutional, wiped out the constitutional reforms of 1928 by which...
...Bigwigs of the Soviet Union, turbanned Kazaks. soldiers of the Red Army, peasants and nomads all came to "Big Bill" Shatov's party. Big Bill had just completed the 1,475-mi. Turksib Railway, linking Siberia and Turkestan. Nothing was too good for him. Soviet orators praised his lurid past as a frequently jailed I. W. W. roustabout all over the U. S. As the senior U. S. Bolshevik in Russia, beaming Big Bill cried, "We old ones have built this road for you- for young, free Russia! You must remember to work in your turn for the Soviet...
Bostonians know Judge Lowell, whose mother was an Emerson, as the jurist who wears flashy cravats and lurid waistcoats, waves to friends from the bench, potters about with flowers. They like to bracket him as a legal libertarian with those other two Massachusetts justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. In 1930 Judge Lowell suffered a paralytic stroke that affected his walk. Last year when a Prohibition case based on wiretapping was before him, he effected an acquittal by addressing the jury thus: "We love to think of Uncle Sam as a thoroughly upright man. . . . Let us look...