Word: morbidity
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...least your editor might have taken a tip from Alex Woollcott, who tells in While Rome Burns (1934) the amusing story that when G. K. Chesterton heard of Mr. Shaw's morbid pronouncement, he professed himself willing to substitute for one of the elephants...
Last week in sunny Atlantic City the clubby little Psychopathological Society met to discuss the latest wrinkles in the brain business, the best methods of treating morbid housewives, drunken drivers, sex criminals. Highlights of the meeting...
Though this plot gives the film an unfair advantage over sentimental audiences, and Actress Davis plucks every heartstring she can lay a finger on, under Edmund Goulding's delicate, direction she makes Dark Victory moving but not morbid. The picture allows pretty, able newcomer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) to put a shapely foot forward, gives Humphrey Bogart, as an Irish groom who loves Judith for her breeding, a chance to act without a gun up his sleeve. Memorable sequence: Judith trying to put her horse over a jump on a morning when her hangover is worse than usual...
...explained that his action, which was supported by the nation's armed forces, was necessary to save the country from a "formidable economic crisin" and a "fratricidal struggle" being plotted by political parties in their "morbid desire" to seize power...
Children's hour stories "must reflect respect for law and order, adult authority, good morals and clean living." Cowardice, malice, deceit, selfishness and disrespect for law must, be avoided, and so must torture, horror (present or impending), superstition, profanity, kidnapping, morbid suspense, hysteria, too much gunplay, death rattles...