Word: ghoulish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silent House. The Chinese are a ghoulish people if one is to believe mystery playwrights. They gleefully eviscerate the noblest hero and burn the baby's eyeballs with a chuckle. An untruthful tribe as well, they are only exceeded in creating lies and tortures by the strange race of men who make up plays of mystery. Strive as one must to minimize their truthless horrors, one cannot escape, herein at least, their power...
...Manhattan. In 1924, it was bought by the Feragil Galleries, in Manhattan. The Feragil Galleries sold it, for a price not made public but estimated at $18,000, to the Cleveland Museum of Art. There it will hang from now on, a good painting and a ghoulish warning to all reckless sports...
...Quinn--or Shea or Russell or Robart--for Mayor" replaces "I do not choose to run in 1928" as the up-to-date decoration of local automobiles. Torchlight parades give the Square a ghoulish light, as hundreds of horns send their echoes across the Yard. Earnest students in Widener scowl, and wonder vaguely what it is all about. It is the first Cambridge political campaign in many years that has caused them to speculate...
...England of 1840 had small sympathy for erring women. When one of them (Pauline Starke) is shipwrecked on their rock-bound coast, the rock-ribbed natives cast her out. Only the young minister (Lars Hanson) stands by her. Together they take refuge on a convict ship, where after ghoulish adventures with the villain captain (Ernest Torrence), they come upon placid seas of matrimony...
...America, advocate that a band of 40 Protestant pastors go as evangelists among college and university students, "those overfed and underworked youths who should be steered into the path of religion and the church, and who should be saved from the beliefs preached by H. L. Mencken and his ghoulish crowd...