Word: morbidness
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...Guess I'm kind of morbid," he asserts. "I'd sorta figured on setting up a little altar in the corner of the room and worshipping the darned thing. Just for a gag you know...
...like to register a protest. Your fighting cocks story [TIME, March 8] didn't belong in the Sport section. This bloody mark on the escutcheon of our so-called "civilized" society is hardly sport. Judging from the heavy wagering involved, the morbid details might more appropriately have appeared under Business...
...Morbid Ways & Mortgages. Toiling at the side of this unruffled paragon of sociological purpose, Beatrice-who could herself outwork and outlecture most social workers of the era-felt feebly feminine and small, "a mere dilettante." After hours of involved research into feudal economy, say, Beatrice would be ashamed to find that her head ached and she had to lie down-while Sidney indefatigably continued to probe the intricacies of mortgage and land-tenure. But he was wonderfully sympathic and never impatient...
...survey of the scope of anti-semitism will not be a revelation to most people, and a survey as methodical as this picture cannot hope to contain thrills and excitement. Instead it works up an almost morbid eagerness to find out what new civilized horror is coming next. Sympathetic characters turn out to have subconscious prejudices, and each unkind word strikes a new blow at the hero. As usual there is a love story in the middle, and very soon even it becomes entangled with anti-semitism...
...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...