Word: morbidness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marrakech, Morocco, Winston Churchill, 73, was out & around after 1) a tussle with a bad cold, 2) a spell of bronchitis, 3) a plague of morbid rumors that had far-off London wringing its hands. Wife Clementine flew down with her husband's private physician. Next day the patient went motoring, dealt the rumors a crushing blow by dining in public on soup, fish with mayonnaise, veal soufflé, cake with whipped cream, tangerines and coffee...
...usually bad news for the prisoner in the dock. His words carried weight: he held degrees from Oxford and St. Mary's Hospital, London, was the author of The Medical Investigation of Crimes of Violence, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, lecturer on such subjects as morbid anatomy and forensic medicine at London's University College Hospital and St. Bartholomew...
...late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
...tales are set has receded to historic distance and become, with its standards of honor and fidelity, a dimming memory in men's minds. . . ." Marxian critics have found him "exotic" because he failed to write of factories; a perennial kind of plain, impatient critic has found his preoccupations morbid. The stories assembled in this volume, and the longer novels, Victory, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes, make both these accusations seem as irrelevant as the "dating" of Conrad's work. Neither time nor fashion really affects its nature, which is Sophoclean and tragic: "The plight...
Surgery has become such a fad, some critics observed, that many an operation is now performed in hopes of finding out what ails the patient, or because the surgeon wants practice, or because a patient has a morbid desire to be cut open. According to Foss, a scandalously large number of operators have had little or no special training in surgery...