Word: churchyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, to establish the reality of divine law, Spiritualist Herbert Tanner engaged an Egyptian vaudeville trouper to lie buried in his churchyard for two hours, "demonstrate" that the dead are only in a trance. Police dug up the Egyptian, fined him $25 for not having a burial permit, $25 for performing the services of an undertaker without a license...
...property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such a plot as Trinity's old churchyard is based on the fact that it is an open space in the shadows of downtown Manhattan. If it were sold for building its worth would decline, dragging down with it the worth of nearby buildings which overlook it. Hence its value is "fiction...
...with tall tales before a Senate Committee about the "Ohio Gang's" activities. Before the U. S. entered the War, he says, he served with the German spy system in the U. S., once received $1,000,000 from a German agent at a midnight rendezvous in Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan. Further in his past lies an astounding record of crime and near-crime. At one time or another, Gaston Means, a sleuth by profession, has been indicted for breach of promise, impersonating an officer, fraud, bribery, forgery, murder. He once told a Senate committee that ''being indicted...
Poet Thomas Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard serves as commentary to the weirdly posterish illustrations of Artist John Vassos (Dutton...
Gray Shadow. A man who has made a practice of murdering folk and claiming their insurance money is mysteriously called the Gray Shadow. When an eccentric recluse is quietly interred in an English country churchyard, his absent ward, the insurance company's detectives and finally the police suspect foul play. They study the circumstances surrounding his burial and in doing so they find the Gray Shadow. The proceedings are not very scarey...