Word: ghoulishness
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...Prizewinning, Kansas-born Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor had already created the most potent anti-war cartoon of all-the two creepy, skeleton-faced, voluptuous harlots labeled World War II ("Uncle Sap's New Girl Friend") and her fuller-blown mother, World War I (see cuts). Of late these ghoulish temptresses have appeared on Publisher Patterson's editorial page with almost comic-strip frequency-graphically timed to make the most of bitterly intensifying Lend-Lease debate, demonstrations, effigy lynchings and the like...
...finally settled among a group of Spanish refugees in Bordeaux. There, in 1828, still painting and drawing with all his old vigor and many a new-found trick, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes died. A scene he would have enjoyed came on a subsequent fantastic midnight when ghoulish phrenologists stole his skull from the Bordeaux graveyard. He left behind him as searing a legacy of propaganda as has ever come from the mind of a single man. Goya's propaganda was not aimed at causes and political parties, but at death, waste, destruction, stupidity, avarice, pretension. Unlike...
...Buenos Aires Arturo Toscanini and the NBC orchestra disregarded the superstition of native musicians that the playing of Saint-Saens' ghoulish Danse Macabre spelled death for one of its performers. Later Violist Jacques Tushinsky was struck and killed by a bus. Not until the orchestra was on its way back to the U. S. last week was Maestro Toscanini informed of the death. Whereupon the white-haired, 73-year-old conductor burst into tears, refused all nourishment but fruit juice...
...technique has added one new effect to Pinocchio that Snow White did not have-terror. The peeping eyes in the night scenes in Snow White were scary, the beautifully drawn buzzards (of which Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art now owns one sketch) were ghoulish. But in Pinocchio the plunging, charging whale, Monstro, is terrifying...
...Comrade Molotov conferred for an hour, at the end of which the Foreign Commissar said he would transmit the British note to his Government, i.e., Joseph Stalin. In Nazi circles, meanwhile, hints were circulated of an impending German, not British, understanding with the Soviets, and there were inspired ghoulish stories that the Communists had proposed to the Nazis a partition of Poland. But while Comrade Stalin maintained an enigmatic silence the British were taking it for granted that the British-French-Russian alliance was in the bag. They even announced that Kliment Voroshilov, top-ranking Soviet General, friend of Stalin...