Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...malefactor of great wealth, living in Claverly or Beck, or took your turn in standing under a faucet in teh gymnasium, there was no chance to bathe. Our classmate, Flandrau, says somewhere in his 'Diary of a Freshman' that a daily bath should be an innocent pleasure, not a morbid family pride. It was not either of these for most of us--it was an unattainable luxury...
...Sorrento, Italy, Maxim Gorky, "The Bitter One," famed Russian novelist, became morbid, cabled Dr. Alexander Kaun of the University of California to commission him to write The Life and Times of Maxim Gorky. Dr. Kaun left immediately for the author's bedside...
...Clarence Darrow is taking off his powdered wig for good. To the legal profession he has long been known as one of the most astute and fearless criminal lawyers. To the morbid public he is known as the counsel for Leopold and Loeb. Needless to say, his intention of retiring to a life of leisure and literary pursuits causes a sharp reaction of one sort or another in all quarters...
...school did not seem to be popcorn. To remedy this the lectures were discolored open to Seniors who had obtained the consent of their parents, "and not a few," says Mr. Samuel F. Batchelor 93 in his "Bits of Harvard History," with the morbid curiosity of youth failed themselves of this gruesome privege...
...after holding forth in Holden for 27 years, the School was moved to Boston but the specimens which has given Holden a sort of morbid lure, remained abandoned in their place, closed up in the now otherwise deserted chapel...