Word: ghoulish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lisa disappeared too, to the bottom of the Neva because he would not heed her warnings against the gaming-table. There he twice won fabulous sums, but the third card was wrong. It was the Queen of Spades instead of the Ace of Hearts and on it grinned the ghoulish face of the old countess, urging him to his suicide...
London society was feverishly trying to guess last week who the author of King George's latest biography might be. The book, "By a Person in Close Touch with the Royal Family," was begun at the height of the King's illness in the ghoulish expectation of being the first posthumous biography. With the King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King...
Evangelist H. W. Thomas lay in a coffin one evening last week. Peering over the edge he harangued Milwaukeeans with ghoulish realism on the subject, "The Journey We All Must Take...
...instant that such a charm could work. Then an army of knights so provided might walk boldly & unseen into the City of Hamburg, select 11 victims at random, and plunge invisible but deadly swords through their hearts. Perhaps the invisible knights would round out a day of ghoulish sport by maiming 200 more unsuspecting men, women & children. Such fiends would delight to steal upon a wedding party and strike down the bride, the bridegroom and the guests. As their sadistic fury grew they would slay horses, cattle, dogs, cats, and perhaps run mad, slashing trees, stabbing bushes, murdering grass...
...case is being tried by the Essex County Circuit of the Supreme Court while still pending in chancery. There is little precedent to point the way legally. There is even less precedent to point the way medically. The Disease. From the Greek, necrosis (making dead) has come its ghoulish name, radium necrosis. The Cause. The paint contained radium and mesothorium salts which continually shoot out Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays. Dr. Harrison S. Martland, Chief Medical Examiner of Essex County found 95% of these to be Alpha rays. Most of the paint the girls swallowed was eliminated through the intestinal tract...