Word: morbid
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...title of Kaufman & Hart's The Fabulous Invalid refers to the theatre, always said to be dying, never quite dead. But so many people have avoided the show, thinking it a "morbid" play laid in a sickroom, that it is now conspicuously subtitled "A Cavalcade of the Theatre...
...company's trademark, and every sound stage on the lot was a makeshift torture chamber. Under its new board of directors, headed by saturnine Banker J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal has completely reversed its trend. Instead of Boris Karloff, today its top star is Deanna Durbin. Instead of morbid criminology its forte is a peculiarly blithe brand of girlish comedy of which Service de Luxe is the latest sample...
...Ohio last week. Negroes picking over a lakefront dump found the dissected body of a young white woman, wrapped in butcher's paper. From its condition it had apparently been kept on ice for some time before being buried on the dump. While police were examining this find, morbid onlookers discovered, 100 ft. away, parts of another, older cadaver, apparently a Negro's. Cleveland's police declared the crimes to be jobs No. 12 and No. 13 of "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (a title conferred by Cleveland newspapers). The mysterious murderer is believed to have...
...risk their lives trying to rescue Eigerwand climbers, two natives clambered to the summit over the usual route, peered down the overhanging wall when the storm let up for a moment, saw no one, returned to the valley. The following morning, as spectators ran to the telescopes for a morbid view of frozen corpses, the quartet calmly walked into Kleine Scheidegg. They had conquered the Eigerwand during the blinding snowstorm, reached their goal at twilight the evening before...
Speaking for the Boston School Committee, which supported the action of Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty in having a summons issued to a Boston newsdealer who defied the police warning, Chairman Henry J. Smith said last night: "We complimented Chief Timilty because we believed that the issue arouses morbid curiosity in children." Asked what he thought of the idea that the publication of childbirth information might make immoral girls think twice, Smith replied: "Well, there might be something to that...