Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stanford White (Thaw victim) ; of Ruth Cruger; of Herman Rosenthal (Becker case) ; of Barnett Baff (poultry king shot down Thanksgiving eve, 1914) ; of five-year-old Giuseppe Varotta (drowned by kidnappers). Had the City of New York cared to do so, it could doubtless have sold these garments to morbid curiosity seekers, netted several hundreds of dollars...
...voice from the sky say: "Hello below ? Hey, down there?" The most peculiar conversation passed in the dark till the aviator landed on a 100-foot cliff, with scarcely a bump. When his plane came down in a crash it was immediately enveloped in flames. Crowds stood about in morbid curosity and horrified anxiety, helpless to extricate the man they thought buried beneath the wreckage, when Macready suddenly walked among them...
...singing the Czardas a fourth time-I could not get a single note out." Crowned heads of the world's musical aristocracy are not lacking. There is Caruso, whom the diva kissed; Richard Strauss and Puccini, her intimate friends; Franz Schreker, whose music she loathes ("His stories are morbid and unhealthy; his scores, vocally, are the most terrible ever written") ; Geraldine Farrar, whom she generously admires; Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Marcella Sembrich her teacher, "strict, and, when I sometimes gave her occasion, stern." The choicest bits are the naive little confessions. "The jewels I wear on the stage...
...enough for college dramatic clubs and workshops merely to advance the mechanical technique of staging plays. A race of dramatists is even more necessary. If the prediction to Halcott Glover that by a rebirth of idealism drama will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well...
...there any stylistic distortion or facts to account for the impression the book makes, any morbid autorial analysis such as the pseudo-psychological novelists affect, any "expressionism", that insane effect produced by filtering all impressions through the distorted vision of one character. The style is not in the least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective. The author records his chronicle of scenes and persons and action with an abundance of that sort of exact detail which makes "realism the only method for romance." If his style maybe said to ring with any prevailing tone, except the tone of accuracy...