Word: odious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are--oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language. Counting these out, what is left is Art. I think we must all admit that...
...Gilbert Frankau, who might be vaguely defined as the English Gertrude Atherton, had henceforth best take his tea and toast elsewhere than in London greenrooms; just returned from a lecture tour of the United States, a privilege of English authors and a penance for American audiences, he makes odious comparisons between British actresses and those of Broadway. He says that the lovely ladies of the Strand do not possess the accomplishments of their transatlantic sisters. They do well at "drawing room comedy where the only demand on their art is facile chatter," but in the heavier drama, the hair-fearing...
Defeat of an attempted bank robbery--American style--in Liverpool has resulted in odious comparisons. One gathers that the British press believes the police system of the United States to be an object of both tears and laughter. They do these things, say the Englishmen, much better abroad. American police are well trained they admit, and they admit, well equipped; but with half the equipment the British manage to get twice the results. Somewhere, somehow, there has been a mistake...
...situation to the country," continued M. Jaspar above an uneasy rustling from his Catholic adherents. "I ask the Chamber at a time which is singularly reminiscent of the tragic days of 1914 to give us power to prevent those of our citizens who are without consciences from continuing their odious and absurd campaign against our national currency. They think they are saving their wealth by bartering Belgian francs for a mess of golden foreign pottage. In reality they are compromising the total assets of our country...
...months of celestial bliss, gorging on succulent, ambrosial fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid fens." Octans neatly despatched a ghost leopard that infested their paradise and all was serene until she asked him to pick a certain blue lotus. Then an "odious ophidian," a python regius of "lethal length," "leprous luster" and "fetid folds," embraced and kissed him so strenuously that he died, shattering her "cordon of dreams." She hated to leave when the battleship came to rescue...