Word: luridness
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Clyde Beatty, 27, of Chillicothe, Ohio, "THE FEARLESS & YOUTHFUL TRAINER DEMONSTRATING MAN'S POWER OVER FEROCIOUS BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE." While lurid red lights play on a circular cage in the centre ring. Trainer Beatty, armed with whip, chair and blank-loaded revolver, assembles some 40 lions & tigers, puts them through paces. The beasts snarl, hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage...
...what Mr. March would make of "Dr. Jekyll" at the University Theatre was a matter of live interest to this Playgoer. For no sooner had lurid posters shown forth the face of Hyde than Stevenson's story came back from early schooldays with all its creeping horrors. It was indeed a tale to harrow up the soul, freeze the young blood; and one day a very young reviewer squirmed in his theatre seat as John Barrymore darkened the screen with the long shadow of Hyde. Not even a break in the film and an "End of Reel Three" sign could...
...papers by either attacking the movies or the stage. This produces an effect upon the public which is far from desirable. All one has to do now to see or read the most execrable pornography is to go to any newsstand and buy one of the cheaper lurid magazines. There are literally hundreds of such magazines being published at the present time, yet no apparent effort is being made to curb the ever-increasing outflow. Some of the magazines have the grace to hide under the name of 'fine arts', but others of the more recent type come out bluntly...
...Siberian railmen had been sentenced to death before a firing squad for "gross criminal negligence" in causing a wreck.* Wives, kinsfolk and 1,000 curious Muscovites crowded the smoky room. Fierce, Trotskyish Chief Prosecutor Reuben Katanyan pointed a long, lean finger at the dazed defendants, described the wreck in lurid detail. "The passenger coaches were crushed like matches!'' he cried. "Forty of the dead will never be identified. They were cut into bits!" Nevertheless, Prosecutor Katanyan asked no severer penalties than ten years' imprisonment. In the midst of the trial the wife of one of the engineers...
When Premier Scullin returned to Australia he found Boss Theodore fairly fuming at Treasurer Lyons' presumptuous independence. He, Mr. Theodore, felt that the smell of scandal had now been aired out sufficiently for him to resume the Treasuryship. While lurid epithets were hurled by Australia's lively Press, Mr. Theodore was reappointed Treasurer- this being the decisive mistake of Mr. Scullin's career...