Word: luridness
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There is also an upheaval of lurid language which tends to confirm the belief that men are men in the Northwest and do not mince words even in talking about...
...historical fact, in the story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...
...orphaned niece sets out on a stage career, inspired by her success in dramatic school. Her aunts had opposed such a life, solely because she belonged to one of the oldest New York families. She tackles a young actor-manager whom she has adored from afar, recites a lurid defamatory speech to convince him of her talent. It convinces him she's a blackmailer, and he telephones for the police. In the end she finds herself in the manager's arms...
...huge expanse, with its innumerable villages and comparatively few large towns, remained an unsolved mystery to most of the few people who troubled to visit it. And when the war out most of the communications, and only the picturesque accounts of the war reporters were forth-coming, the generally lurid impression was not modified. One was taught in school that Russia was composed of a very large number of peasants who slept on the stove and consumed a uniquely potent stimulant called vodka, guaranteed to baffle the coldest weather and the Czar, a glorious individual, at whose slightest whim...
Daughters of Today. Another exposé picture, pretending to preach a soapy moral while giving lurid peeps at the flappers and gilded youths of this age in a Hollywood mood. It carries its own criticism, in that the author-producer prefers to remain anonymous...