Word: luridness
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Famed Japanese publicists Teisuka Akiyama and Seijiro Kawashima detonated into lurid phrase again last week, called upon Japan to declare war on the U. S., rehashed with venom the celebrated "Hanihara incident."† (TIME, April...
...melodramatists that one may see in this inhibited country off the one-night stands. This, apparently, is what the Spanish crave, Raquel Meller to the contrary. Maria Guerrero had the most to do. She fulminated and she growled, stamped and tore the plays to bits. Most of them were lurid melodramas, sensitive to this sort of treatment. Spaniards in the packed galleries howled back their delight with equal fervor. Nordics called it movie acting, excellent of its type but uninteresting to us. Some of them cruelly termed the proceedings "ma?...
When Edward VII looked about for a hardy son-in-law, he was reputedly not unpleased at reports that Prince Carl of Denmark could command any ship capable of being sailed, in language sufficiently lurid to cow the most rebellious forecastle hand. Since Carl has become Haakon, he has not so much mellowed as acquired reserve. Cheerful, kindly, stout of heart, he conceals these characteristics behind the bearing of a martinet...
Father Kasaczun, a parish priest of Sugar Notch in the Pennsylvania anthracite district, had previously given the most lurid account of the alcoholism of this era. Stills, he said, were to be found, in at least one out of every five homes. Parents got drunk in the presence of their children. Wives who tended the stills ended by running away with the "star-boarder." Young girls demanded that their boy friends provide liquor on auto parties, so that immorality at tender ages was prevalent. Once the priest heard a child of three pleading, "Mamma, moonshine...
...tutting. Should William Randolph Hearst announce that he was writing The Life of Christ, many persons might be vexed. Many tut-tutted last week when "the Hearst of England," Lord Beaverbrook,* owner of the lurid London Daily Express, etc., announced that he is writing a biography of the Nazarene "in an arresting style . .. great reverence. .. sincerity ... will explain the Savior's actions...