Word: ghoul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost a year ago, the 3,000 ton freighter City of Rome towered over the gashed, sinking hulk of the S-51. Thirty of the crew died beneath the waves of Long Island Sound; 24 of them had swallowed the inky brine which swirled within the submarine, finally, the ghoul ship was raised from the ocean floor (TIME, July 5 et seq.) ; now the 24 sleep in Arlington Cemetery...
Bugles called hasty orders, the pumps blasted air furiously into the stern pontoons, the waiting ghoul-ships drew closer, the great narwhalian mausoleum swung ponderously in the seas, her stern dragging on the bottom, as the 24 neared consummate orthodox sepulture...
...pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
...Rhythm. Last winter, he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue. In a jazz theme, announced by full orchestra, the immortal Liszt, with a diamond in his dinner-shirt, collapses, babbling, on a night-club table; instruments fall silent behind piano figurations for a chorus-rehearsal of skeletons with a solo ghoul in a buck-and-wing dip, while the first cat that was ever killed by Care shrinks in affright from the hard, slit eyes, the waiting jowls of Broadway, the Loop, the Barbary Coast. Said Critic Carl Van Vechten...
...ghastly ghoul prowled around a cemetery not far from Paris. Into family chapels went he, robbery of the dead intent upon. In the coffin of a six-months old baby he found nothing...