Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make the theatre such a refection of the minority that you show only one-sided life. Whatever artistry there may be in the best of your morbid plays is obscured by their ugliness, and, worse, they breed more spread plays, lacking even in the serious purpose of the forerunners...
...morbid curiosity of the last collecting crowd was soon satisfied when two attendants alighted and, carefully removed a large trunk from the interior...
WHITE CARGO-A morbid fable of the mixture of the races which occurs when white men are left too long alone in the waste places of the earth. The mixture is with the black; the place Africa...
...smoked or eaten, the effects of opium vary according to the mental disposition of the consumers. To the bright, happy man all manner of pleasing scenes are presented; an ambitious man will fancy himself a gloried Napoleon; a man will liverish fancy man will himself be seized with morbid visions and filled with horror and dismay. About half to one hour is necessary for the opium to take effect and cause slumber from which the consumer awakes exhausted, pensive and melancholy. The drug is dangerously habit-forming and becomes so necessary to the addict that he cannot live without...
...play shouts at the top of its voice for lovers of morbid melodrama. As a serious discussion of character disintegration, it is preposterous...