Word: morbid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoyed the dog show, as many women enjoy large dinner parties, sat up and preened their coats, or barked merrily. To stroll into this lowest floor, where the dogs were "benched" was like strolling into a rout or reception, as imagined by some satirist whose fancy was for the morbid & grotesque; a tramp would have died, surely & instantly, of fright...
...morbid undergraduate has any curious desire to examine the mummies of eight members of the oldest, least known Indians of pre-historic times, he may do so at leisure in the Peabody Museum where the venerable perserved corpses of antiquity are recovering from the ordeal of a strenuous autopsy to which they were subjected recently by Dr. G. E. Wilson, histology instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Rather, six of the bodies has their privacy imposed upon, results of which permit an expose of the private life of Arizona's Basket Maker Indians...
...justice, for, after all, this is really the only significant feature of the case. But this simple fact is insufficient for the gratification of the crowd. In spite o the meagerness of their knowledge of the legal situation or the import of the affair, their avidity in absorbing the morbid details of the execution, as provided by the more popular newspapers, was unbounded. How eagerly they assimilated the itemized description of this gruesome procedure! How they revelled in the mental picture brought to their minds of the death house, the atmosphere and the victims, writhing inwardly at the apprehension...
Sirs: TIME, Dec. 5, p. 18, says in col. 2 : "He said, 'I will burn it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity.' After this arrogant comment . . ." etc. Of course I am wrong in thinking Sir Basil's comment not arrogant that arrogant implied overbearing assertion of superiority, of others' rights not recognized, that haughty would be better here, that haughty implies only a consciousness of superiority. Wrong words in wrong places keep TIME from the best tables. Haughtily, RODERICK BISSELL JONES Winstead, Conn...
...paper, were translated into a soft and fragmentary tongue before they perished into smoke. Sir Basil Zaharoff, content to disregard a questionable fame that might have injured a more immediate potency, watched the conflagration with mild attention. He said: "I burned it because I have no reason for satisfying morbid public curiosity." After this arrogant comment and after the last page of the diary had be come a black and feathery tissue, Sir Basil Zaharoff left Paris for Monte Carlo...