Word: ghoulishness
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...Illinois' ghoulish-minded Brothers Albright were represented by Maine landscapes with as moldy-looking surfaces as the worm's-eye views of decomposing human flesh which made them famous (TIME, July...
Everything, it seems at first, is in this book; such ghoulish, semi-slang tintypes as "God's image cut in ebony" (for Negro); such beautifully graphic trade terms as the miner's "snow" (for the sifting of earth presaging a cave-in), the ballplayer's "floater" (for a slow ball), the prostitute's "pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they...
...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Metro Goldwyn-Mayer) is such a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson's ghoulish classic that it might well serve as a final mausoleum for the bones of the ill-fated Harley Street medico and his test-tube twin...
...room near by lay another patient, dying of brain tumor. Both patients belonged to the same blood group. The sick woman's doctors, F. Katz and Fritz Mainzer, decided on a ghoulish experiment...
...recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take a number from one to ten, double it and add a million." Equally inappropriate, if not quite so ghoulish, was a tune that followed the broadcast of Roosevelt's landslide of 1936. That time NBC broke out with Ain't It a Shame...