Word: ghoulish
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...Minute Alibi (by Anthony Armstrong; Crosby Gaige & Lee Shubert, producers). London has been excited about this play for the past ten months, and no wonder. Less ghoulish than Rope's End, as cleverly constructed as A. A. Milne's classic thriller The Perfect Alibi, Playwright Armstrong's piece leaps nimbly over all the stenciled pitfalls which ensnare such pedestrian efforts as Keeper of the Keys...
REMINISCENCES OF D. H. LAWRENCE- John Middleton Murry-Holt ($2.50). A book about a book about D. H. L., carrying the ghoulish controversy between Catherine Carswell and Author Murry one step further...
...remembered for his translation of Shakespeare. Ludwig Tieck's majestic, melancholy search for the essence of fairyland beauty produced an impossible, capricious comedy, "Puss in Boots." Kleist awakened from his dream of tearing from Goethe's brow the garlands of supremacy which lyric genius had placed, awakened to the ghoulish nightmare of inferiority, blew out his brains. Heine, dying in Paris, oppressed by his own poverty, announced the close of the romantic movement. The mystic images, the gloomy flight from the world, the day of freedom of fancy was over. Today at 12 o'clock in Sever 6 Professor Silz...
Blinding javelins of lightning encircled the colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve...
...missing; the photograph was from a little book called "The Horror of It," published by a group of pacifists to show the real, unheroic, revolting side of war. Pictures and scraps of poetry gleaned from the work of soldiers compose the book. It comes up to the standard of ghoulish horror which Time's picture promised, and it is admittedly not pleasant; it might even be condemned as morbid if there were not a saving grace in the purpose for which it was printed...