Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...killed in making a German movie, or the little Negro children playing funeral, or the drowning of a Russian Jew at Coney Island? They are surely not of national interest and to me they smack strongly of the sensationalism of Hearst. They are merely gruesome incidents that disclose the morbid mind of a pig sticker delighting in his superb ability to portray the horrible...
After every disaster there are always the exasperating inquiries, the morbid inspections, the fixing of the blame...
Many a night James Calisch sat until dawn with young Emanuel Silberstein, who would come around from 57th St. to interrogate and dispute upon the writings of Spinoza, the Jew of Amsterdam; of morbid Schopenhauer, neurotic Nietzsche, recondite Kant. Emanuel was regarded by himself and his family, as a mental prodigy. He had made public orations in the Liberty Loan drives at the age of 10. He had finished high school at 16 and, after a nervous breakdown, read long and late at philosophy and psychology, screwed up in a corner with his scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose...
...pale sky, and they looked at one another and talked stupidly about bolts of lightning, picturing the silver skin gutted and men blown down the night like seeds. Captain G. W. Steele Jr., however, and Lieutenant Commander Charles M. Rosendahl, who flew the ship, indulged in no such morbid associations. "Rosendahl made a brilliant landing, but the ground crew* needs practice," said Captain Steele...
These facts to the contrary, notwithstanding, the morbid or wholesome craving for alcoholic content created a big, quick demand. Pabst began shipments. August A. Busch announced that Anheuser-Busch could not ship for several months. Small druggists will be. limited to five cases a week, big druggists to 25. Twelve-ounce bottles will cost about 35?. At 50?, drug store clerks in Minneapolis were the first to pass them out. Sale in Manhattan followed several days later. In Indiana, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union became hectic, threatening that "our Congress will impeach General Andrews and even Mr. Mellon...