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Word: morbidness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale stands started out with some vigorous pre-game cheers, but five minutes later they had subsided to a morbid despondency . . . . after the first quarter the cheering volumes gradually switched, with the sound of Brekekekek attaining attaining eventual superiority . . . the goalposts went swiftly and cleanly--not with a whimper but with a bang . . . Richard Corcoran '46 was dangerous with his heels as he hung from the north bars...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Raccoons, Crowds, Bottles Feature Lushest Yale Gathering of Decade | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...actress. First of all, she has chosen to reduce the play to a five-scene, non-stop performance, a choice which only serves to increase the tedium of the whole proceeding. By casting Mary Alice Moore, who was obviously made for something frothy by Philip Barry, in this morbid, introspective play, she has committed an error sufficient to throw the entire play out of focus. And in her role as the aunt, Miss LeGallienne demonstrates she still believes that elenching her hands and jutting out her jaw are sufficient substitutes for genuine acting. As for Margaret Webster and Victor Jory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

...police knew who the dead man was, and who owned the hut. Both were Existentialists-followers of the morbid postwar philosophy which holds that man is nothing but the sum of his experience and that all experience is inexplicable and tragic (TIME, Jan. 28). Was this an Existentialist murder? The police asked that question of the hut's owner. "An interesting problem," he answered tranquilly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Existentialist Murder? | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...will not come to you as a surprise to be told that your Confidential Guide is no more confidential than you intended it to be. We teachers have the morbid curiosity the flesh is heir to. By now you may be sure your pamphlet has driven its little wedge into the brain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

Some 4% of Budapest's citizens live in morbid, black-market-borne luxury, nightly jam the few remaining big hotels, famed restaurants like Gundel's or the Cafe Michel, theaters, cabarets and movie houses. For the rest of the people, food rations are down to 556 calories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Mathematics for the Millions | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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