Word: scabrously
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...Will H. Hays was made president of a representative organization which called itself Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc., the religious bodies which had previously been alarmed by the pernicious moral influences exerted by the cinema industry were vastly relieved. To them, it seemed that the scabrous ideals of the ignorant money grubbers who were producing moving pictures could be effectively counteracted by the efforts of an able, high-minded Presbyterian elder and ex-Postmaster General...
...with her to the evening's revel at another friend's house, Mile. Hastre exhibited its glossy chocolate surface and sugary frosting, caused mouths to water at the thought of sweet liqueurs or sugary stuffing within, caused shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately plunged, its stinger into her hand. While Mlle. Hastre received medical aid, friends of Mlle. Van Hong Lu loudly denied that she could have connived in the hoax...
...world of sunlight sleeping in ageless gardens; his occupations hunting and lovemaking; he passed from gratification to gratification, looking for the answer to a question he had never phrased. Sometimes, when he traveled over his estates, he saw unpleasant things-a man dreadfully undone by age, a body scabrous with disease, a corpse putrefying in a field-but Channa, his charioteer, had a comment which illumined all such offensive testimonials of hu- man mortality. "That is the way of life," said Channa...
Some of them were old, with peaked brown faces gouged and distorted by the wild turmoil in their heads; some were boys who admired the carpenter because of his sorrowful eyes and comely figure; others peddlers and harlots, cripples scabrous with loathsome diseases, twitching paralytics, and mahogany-faced bushmen who had heard of Vespaciano and had come down from the hills. To them he talked of what had been revealed to him; some he healed, using the same formula with which he had raised his first patient, and it came to the ears of certain authorities that this formula...