Word: luridness
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...This lurid statement has caused great mortification to the many readers of your magazine in Hankow, as well as to the said Butterick, who is made the subject of such unfortunate publicity. It cannot be denied that there exists an ample supply of this form of ammunition in this turbulent metropolis but it is not a fact that dung was flung at the gentleman in question. I was present in Hankow during the hectic days of early January and therefore am able to testify that I personally was not aware that dung was flung, and can also aver that Butterick...
...Lurid paraphrases of this headline were carried by scores of newspapers above a lead which gave in indirect discourse a proclamation by General Pai Tsung-hsi, the Nationalist commander in immediate control of Shanghai. His actual words were, in part: "The Chinese people must not insult the foreigners or destroy their property. . . The people must distinguish between combatting foreign imperialism and attacking foreigners. . . . But we Chinese now have awakened and Shanghai, the greatest commercial centre in the Far East, will become not only a strong base for Chinese nationalism but for world revolution...
When such lurid posters appeared in Moscow last week, throngs rushed to trade tchervontsy for tickets. All mobs love gore, but must very generally do with out it nowadays. Therefore, the wolf fight prospectus which was distributed in Moscow last week was pawed by eager humans, blood curious, licking their chops: The Co-operative Association of Moscow Hunters will present a magnificent spectacle in which 1,000 rabbits will be chased and torn to pieces by 200 hounds. . . . Eighty foxes and an equal number of dogs will fight...
Edward of Wales: "Mrs. Keld Fenwick (once lurid U. S. actress 'Peggy Marsh'),† the Jewish Belgian billionaire Capt. Alfred Lowenstein and myself hunted with a party last week in my favorite haunt, the Melton Mowbray district. Suddenly Captain Lowenstein's horse bolted, throwing him. Peggy Marsh and I spurred after the beast, which I captured. Captain Lowenstein got up uninjured. At present he is being sued by a French doorman whom he hit in the jaw (TIME, Nov. 8), and two French detectives are in Manhattan tracing $600,000 worth of gems of which his wife...
...climactic number, the Fourth Symphony by Brahms, is charged with an emotional power that makes it well-suited for the conclusion of a repertoire that is at the start descriptive and interpretative. The emotional fire of this composition in E minor never Mazes into a lurid display nor dies down to lukewarm embers, but always remains at a steady white heat. The musical skill and energetic orchstration that marks Brahms symphonic work is especially apparent in this Fourth composition...