Word: morbidness
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...Englishman or Japanese or anything else. I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive. This is the only thing that interests me greatly. This and tennis." And he does succeed admirably in many instances in communicating his conception of life, though it is often a morbid and distorted one. It is this element that at one and the same time detracts from his writing and again gives it the vividness so characteristic of his work...
...Cunningham, 54, originally from Kansas City, believes that organisms which live only in the absence of oxygen cause certain forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia, and cancer. To him, the logical treatment is to saturate the patient with oxygen under pressure, which theoretically permeates to the morbid organisms and kills them. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association, after due consideration, has denounced this theory of therapy as so much quackery. Nevertheless, Henry Holiday Timken, reclusive roller-bearing tycoon, had sufficient faith in Dr. Cunningham's ideas to give him $1,000,000 to construct his tank hospital...
...sending Cardinal Pacelli as Papal Legate to the Buenos Aires congress the Pope was expressing his high esteem for his Latin American children. Not mentioned at all by the Vatican was a report that one reason for Cardinal Pacelli's going is the prevalence in South America of morbid, unhealthy cults of the Virgin; that the Cardinal Legate will look into these, take steps to suppress them...
Pernod Fils refused to pay the blackmail demands and the said publisher commenced his campaign in print. Due to War hysteria and the general desire to do anything to win the War, to say nothing of the Frenchman's morbid fear of such a terrible catastrophe as mass-impotence (some Frenchmen won't smoke American cigarets because they believe them to contain saltpetre), the movement caught the popular fancy and was militantly endorsed by the rest of the Paris papers. At this point Pernod Fils is supposed to have paid off the publisher, whereupon he retracted as best he could...
...including dresses made of cellophane and rubber, collars of china, gadgets designed from harness. One of her best textile designs grew out of some plaster and netting she picked up in a rubbish pile. In her crusade for sharp, dramatic line ("skyscraper silhouet") Mme Schiaparelli persecutes the button with morbid zeal, has substituted all manner of gadgets in place of it, including metal coat fasteners in the shape of dollar signs...