Word: ghoulish
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...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...
...book. One suspects that one of Mrs. Rinehart's literarily inclined sons -Alan, the publicity man, or Stanley, a still-higher-up of their mother's publisher - is the unnamed "third person" who alleges he was a nervous derelict after transcribing from scenes to chapters the ghoulish excitement that takes place, in and about Manhattan, when the Mark of the Bat begins to be found near people with bullet-holes in their ribs, and in a house with a secret room...
...writers, Coach Fisher was striving to build up a defense to hold the Yale scoring to a minimum while Coach Jones was debating whether to roll up an obliterating tally or content himself with a moderate victory for the sake of many substitutions, must make Cambridge hearts glow with ghoulish glee. Yale may content itself with out-playing the Crimson, but Harvard will have the long awaited satisfaction of a superb halt to Yale's victorious rampage of the last three years; while Mr. George F. Gundolfinger will doubtless settle down to write another version of Why the Bulldog...
...find the partisan pack in full bay?Bess, Tray and Sweetheart?all hot upon the scent. Here, I suppose, we shall continue to see, and the country will not fail to take notice of, a proceeding in which we find sick chambers invaded by a jazz band, a ghoulish dance performed on a cemetery and partisan snipers making a rifle pit of the grave of Warren Harding...