Word: ghoulish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humor has taken, from Peter Arno's old-maidish "whoops" girls of the '20s ("I'm gonna show me profile, dearie!" "Profile? Whoops! I ain't even takin' me coat off"), close kin to the charwomen of London's Punch, to the ghoulish gaiety of Charles Addams. Many a New Yorkerism (e.g., Cartoonist Carl Rose's "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it") has become a part of the language. The Album proves that, when told right, there is no such thing as a stale joke...
...Here, in this ghoulish little scene, is the essential horror story of our time . . . This Roman holiday in staid old Boston proves again how thin is the veneer of our Christianity...
...York Times's radio critic Jack Gould was appalled by Flash Gordon, an interstellar TV serial based on a comic strip. He damned it as "a macabre and sordid half-hour" which had no other purpose than "a stimulation of horror, fright and ghoulish suspense." Appealing to executives of the Du Mont network as "men of sensibility and judgment," Gould asked that something be done about the show (Sat. 6:30 p.m. E.S.T.), which "so easily can have an unhappy aftermath in the impressionable minds of youngsters...
Simon and Schuster has now put a recent selection of these cartoons into an anthology, and this large single does of Addams points out one fact: he is not very funny. He has a stock family, a suitably ghoulish group of people, and he takes it through a series of situations which other cartoonists have long ago overworked...
Happily cast as a ghoulish small-town scamp, Wayne accidentally kills his unpopular Uncle Joe on a family picnic and, fearing a murder charge, talks the family into burying him secretly near by. When he learns that the dead man carried a $10,000 life insurance policy (double indemnity for accidents), he hopefully begins identifying a random lot of corpses as Uncle Joe. Twice balked by insurance investigators, once in the midst of a mock-solemn funeral service full of twittering canaries, Wayne finally decides to dig up Uncle Joe and put him where he can do some good...