Word: morbidity
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...Marines made ready to leave, scores of other foreigners followed suit. To the financial depression, long since brought on by Japanese control of the city, there was added personal panic. Morbid drinkers who stared along the "world's longest bar" at the Shanghai Club fancied they could see not only the curvature of the earth but a tragic turning of destiny...
...time things are dramatically at sixes and sevens, though artistically neat as a pin. For Playwright Coward, standing at the juncture of three yawning precipices, nimbly keeps his balance. He makes his preposterous menage seem entirely natural. He maintains so light a touch that Death, far from being morbid, seems as carefree as a debutante. He is so resourceful that nearly every time his tale gets winded, he brings up a change of horses and away it goes again-and only slightly downhill...
Though her father was Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Alexandra had been strictly brought up in the vikingly virtues of sewing and Swedish movements. Sometimes Hans Christian Andersen would drop in to read her one of his morbid little masterpieces for children. In England his place was less excitingly filled by Lord Tennyson who hailed Alexandra's marriage with these lines...
Such a complex, of course, does not explain the act of murder. Many men, says Dr. Wertham, have matricidal impulses, never translate them into action. Instead they bury the desire in their subconscious, develop compulsion neuroses-a morbid dread of knives, persistent symbolic hand-washing, etc. If he had had a tendency toward ordinary forms of insanity, Gino might have killed himself instead of his mother. Or he might have withdrawn to the world of fantasy, developed schizophrenia...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...