Word: morbidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal danger of the situation seems that these people are completely unable to see themselves in any other light than that of an aggrieved power struggling for noble ideals against a world of political, financial and commercial conspirators. This feeling has reached the stage of morbid hysteria...
Brilliant, morbid and exciting, M is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929 (the perpetrator of which, Butcher Kuerten, was executed). It was written, like most of Director Lang's productions, by his wife. Thea von Harbou. It is all in German, with fairly adequate English subtitles superimposed. Peter Lorre distinguishes himself in a magnificent cast by his haunting performance as the murderer. Good shot: the pudgy young man after seeing himself described as a maniac, peering into a mirror and stretching his mouth to see if he looks crazy...
...prosecutor's announcement filled York blackamoors with morbid interest...
Whatever the spirit that paints Mrs. Bush's pictures, it has a morbid mind. Peace, most interesting canvas on view last week, showed the face of a drowned girl floating in water sprinkled with flowers, while over it hovers a weird bird with a very long beak and a tightly curled tail...
Chicago's militant Obstetrician Joseph Bolivar DeLee, founder of remarkably sanitary Chicago Lying-in Hospital, last week threw the morbid facts into Medicine's teeth,* tamped them down Medicine's throat with the heavily honest Journal of the American Medical Association. Roared Dr. DeLee: "Evidence enough to convince any jury of husbands or any committee of life insurance adjusters. . . . The general hospital is a veritable cesspool of infection. . . . Meddlesome midwifery and puerperal infection seem to cause the greater part of the mortality, either singly or in combination. . . . Meddlesome midwifery must be abated or made safe. Something...