Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entirely too much heard from some of the individual Directors of the Athletic Association; too much posing before the public; too great, far too great a tendency to rush into print on every possible occasion. Not only in the present instance, but many times in the past, has this morbid desire for publicity on the part of those who are ostensibly managing athletics in Pennsylvania's interest, but who often appear to do so chiefly to advertise themselves, done Pennsylvania lasting harm and made her appear ridiculous. The position in which we are now placed in regard to Yale...
...Treasure," by Kenneth Brown, partakes somewhat of the nature of the author's story in the last number of the Advocate, in its strangeness of conception. It has for its theme the description of the thoughts of an old man whose mind is morbid from much reflection upon a previously committed murder...
...Century for May is an excellent number, even though it gives us quite too much of that morbid egotist whose recent memoirs have excited so much curiosity and so little real sympathy. There are two unsigned articles concerning Marie Bashkistseff, one laudatory, the other critical...