Word: morbidness
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...counteract this morbid tendency the generous of the world have succeeded in devising methods of communicating for the deaf. One will recall the experiments which enabled blind, deaf, mute Helen Keller finally to speak. In reading lips most deaf people have become so adept that no longer do cinema actors dare blaspheme or talk ribaldry before the camera. Incidentally the cinema has been a great blessing for the deaf...
Although the superior powers of Mr. Wells will probably triumph in the end Mr. Bigelow's forcible style can make some telling points. In any event, the quarrel has promise of the acrimonious personalities which always please the bystander. Although not masterpieces of literature the rival invectives have the morbid appeal of a scandal sheet. The dog-fighting portion of the intelligentsia hopes that the quarrel will be long and litter...
...malefactor of great wealth, living in Claverly or Beck, or took your turn in standing under a faucet in teh gymnasium, there was no chance to bathe. Our classmate, Flandrau, says somewhere in his 'Diary of a Freshman' that a daily bath should be an innocent pleasure, not a morbid family pride. It was not either of these for most of us--it was an unattainable luxury...
...Sorrento, Italy, Maxim Gorky, "The Bitter One," famed Russian novelist, became morbid, cabled Dr. Alexander Kaun of the University of California to commission him to write The Life and Times of Maxim Gorky. Dr. Kaun left immediately for the author's bedside...
...Clarence Darrow is taking off his powdered wig for good. To the legal profession he has long been known as one of the most astute and fearless criminal lawyers. To the morbid public he is known as the counsel for Leopold and Loeb. Needless to say, his intention of retiring to a life of leisure and literary pursuits causes a sharp reaction of one sort or another in all quarters...