Word: ghoulishness
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...according to persons who had heard him in Europe, was below his standard. Hans Clemens, newcomer from Berlin, sang the minor role of a steersman and disproved the theory that there are no good German tenors. Soprano Maria Jeritza apparently believed in the hallucinations of Senta, lifted high the ghoulish scene of her meeting with the Dutchman, her promise to redeem...
...return to the S. S. Van Dine ghoulish extravaganzas William Powell, while easily surpassing his understudy, Basil Rathbone, who appeared as Philo Vance in the "Bishop Murder Case", gives a distinctly inferior performance to his first appearance as the modernist detective. His suavity is the direct cause of objection: ennui sits so heavily upon him that it finally spreads to the spectator and the latter at last doesn't give a--(censored on Sundays) just who did make off with the entirely nasty stockbroker: he's done away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits...
...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...