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Carl E. Lesher, militant vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., took the stand to answer questions fired by a mine union attorney. This colloquy dwelt chiefly on strikebreaking conditions at the mines, lurid with references to Pinkerton detectives, lewd Negroes' criminal assaults on mine women. Mr. Lesher passed on to his chief, President John D. A. Morrow of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., responsibility for the company's newspaper advertisements of last fortnight, which asserted that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced." Mr. Lesher said: "Perhaps we are unfortunate in that our material is prosaic and that...
Follows matter enough for a dozen penny dreadfuls, threepenny thrillers: a fight with sledgehammer and dirk in the lurid shadows of a gypsy fire-Claire's body gleaming white but for the dark cords that bind her ankles and wrists; a struggle in the dank blackness of a railway tunnel which a gang of Claire's suitors blockade at one end, while others sneak in opposite: "Kill the man, but save the wench! . . ."A relic of civilized scruple holds Martin from killing a hairy giant furnaceman, because he has sprawled over the tracks and technically is down...
...subject. Here, as nowhere else, could the whole breadth and depth of Prohibition be revealed. Nothing would be more effective than a chorus of Rotarians in derbies, rolling forth grandiose melodies reeking with noble sentiments; or the orchestral blare as Prohibition, garbed in black, rushes full tilt at the lurid figure of the Demon Rum; or the carrying off of the latter's corpse to the tune of "Blue Heaven". But if such treatment is a possibility from the more violent native sons, M. Pillionel, with a calmer, foreign point of view, will doubtless leave it for them...
Following Representative Casey's speech, Representative La Guardia obtained lurid effects in an oration on "Hootch and Harlots," illustrated in the tabloid sheetlet manner with a gigantic photo of a hard-boiled Coal & Iron Policeman which was passed from hand to hand over the House desks...
...history of English legal polity is replete with prosecutions, in all of which the picture of a tyrannical and brutal trial judge occupies the most lurid position in the public mind. Especially the prosecutions in Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century at the crucial stage of the American legal system threw its dark cloud upon the young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding...