Word: banquo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly before the final adjournment of the Council was moved, Senhor Mello Franco strode in like the ghost of Banquo, dabbed his eyes with an ever damper handkerchief, handed to League Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond a cablegram. . . . The cable conveyed in 5,000 words the resignation of Brazil from her nonpermanent Council seat. The Council, not to be stampeded, refused to accept the resignation, held that the Assembly of the League is alone empowered...
...imbued with remarkable staying powers and nearly six years after its birth, this old joke, this same old discussion, is still going strong. People try to shut their ears against its monotonous reiteration but such action will do no good. The reason for its staying powers is that like Banquo's ghost the question will not down. The Prohibition question, if not liver than ever, is certainly as live as when the Eighteenth Amendment was passed...
...treatise could be written on the tremendous legal question involved, whether this tardly recognition will be retroactive legitimizing the careers of the great ghosts of British history from Banquo down and their more humble contemporaries, or whether the only parties affected will be the up-and-coming, ectoplastic, ghosts of today with a future as well as a past. But the event is equally important from the social, economics and scientific standpoints. The battered old castle of Lord Woodbine or Baron Willis where the whispered communications of the one-armed ancestor with no chin have gathered clandestinely throngs of faithful...
...Macbeth and his wife, interlinked with the plot. Carrying them through the murder of Duncan, he showed the hero becoming more resolute as fate tightened its grip. "Lady Macbeth", went on Professor Kittredge, "is an indispensable support to her courageous, but none too steady, husband. Following the scene with Banquo's ghost, the heroine instills renewed vitality into Macbeth's flagging spirits...
...culmination", he concluded, "comes in Macbeth's reception of the news of his wife's death. His placid comment on the subject is in direct contrast to the passionate love for her evinced in earlier scenes. This--more than the murder of Duncan, more than the slaying of Banquo--this is the tragedy of Macbeth...