Word: ghoul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place fit for the kind of language which the Senator from North Dakota puts into the record about a dead man, a great man, a good man. and a man who, when alive, had the courage to meet his enemies face to face. . . . This committee . . . comes back like a ghoul, a historical ghoul, to desecrate the sacred resting place of the honored dead...
...medieval chapters Author Kirstein makes much of the fanatic Dance of Death which he calls a tombstone to medieval mentality. It was at the time of plagues that Death appeared as "a graveyard ghoul, a chilling spectral horror . . . frightening now only to listeners of ghost stories or children whistling past cemeteries." Its influence was tremendous. When the bubonic scourge swept Europe in 1373 wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely...
...vehicle than The Black Cat in which to appear together for the first time. Between them they have played all of the more awful whatnots and macabre personages of the past few years, Karloff in The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Old Dark House and The Ghoul; Lugosi in Dracula, White Zombie, Chandu the Magician and Murders in the Rue Morgue...
...resorting to boner law. They are preventing a free-lance student from also being a free-spade artist. While anthropologist Andrews merely insists that the bones are filed away in Peabody Museum, they insist that the bones are defiled. But Mr. Andrews seems fair to knock them for a ghoul. It is hinted that he plans to give the bones back since they are not good specimens anyway. The happy ending will be provided if Mr. Andrews offers them all an anthropology and lets it go at that...
...course, who was responsible for all this, who walked in "the ghoul-haunted woodlands of Weir" and though of "what man never dared to think before." Now the Vagabond himself is something of an authority on gaunt and ghastly ghouls and fifty-six other varieties of spooks, but he is anxious to hear Professor Matthiessen's lecture on Poe today at 10 o'clock in Harvard...