Word: morbidness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...treated with more respect-the respect due a scholar and a man who for nine years held a position in Lloyd's Bank. Of The Waste Land Smith observes that "in addition to this form of a literary medley, Eliot seems to have caught from Pound [a] morbid preoccupation with squalor.-" But he agrees with "the best of all living American critics" (Edmund Wilson) that "Eliot, in ten years' time, has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing English...
...better than Remarque's "Flotsam," from which it derives its plot, you can not get around the fact that it lasts almost two hours, and that it is depressing for every single minute of that time. Even the touches of humor can not bring it out its morbid depths. This is the kind of movie that is to be appreciated, not enjoyed...
...choice of books. For when the frenzy of Washington jingoism succeeds in permeating the Yard there will no longer be any reason for remaining at Harvard. We can then go home, curl up on the couch with that useful anesthetic, Out of the Night, and remain lost in a morbid phantasmagoria while we await the postman with his message from the Department of War. Leo Marx '41 Editor of the Harvard. Progressive...
...accustomed to taking its crime with almost morbid seriousness. Citizens read about it, brood about it, usually come to the moody conclusion that the U. S. is a violent, lawless, desperate land, with a mighty black record compared to other nations. With this belief foreigners have been prompt to agree. But to many a reader of Valtin's real-life thriller, it came with a sudden shock of realization that other nations have their mad dogs too. Compared to them, such U. S. gangsters as Al Capone are very small change...