Word: morbidity
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...prosecutor's announcement filled York blackamoors with morbid interest...
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...
...Roman Catholic Church has lately noticed in rural Europe an increase of morbid, ultra-mystical worshippers and of strange fanatical figures deemed holy by the ignorant. Fairly well-known by Catholics throughout the world are the German peasant Therese Neumann and the Italian Franciscan Padre Pio, both of whom are reputed to have stigmata on their bodies. In Belgium and in Northern Spain are nuns who "sweat blood" during their devotions. Last week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical...
...role of Henry Dewlip in "Spring-time for Henry," in a CRIMSON interview between the acts at the Wilbur Theatre last night. "I enjoy my part in this play immensely because the production is a kind of tonic that America needs. Our country has fallen into a state of morbid hysteria over the depression that we must overcome. The fun never flags in this skit, and the larger the number of Americans who can learn to laugh whole-heartedly again, the greater will be the chances of emerging from the present depression...
...deep of nightmares and bogeymen he can summon up ghosts that haunt nurseries and still frighten some grownups. With fewer bogeymen than usual, a happy issue out of some of its afflictions. Light in August continues the Faulkner tradition by a murder, a lynching and a good deal of morbid fornication...