Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera gave up the ghost in 1910, New York's Metropolitan Opera has had no real competition. The only flies in its monopolistic ointment have been popular-priced hopefuls like the New York City Opera Co., which tried a short experimental season four years...
...time of year as the Jewish Passover. Jesus (says Agabus-Graves) was endowed with supernatural powers of mind and will, and he did in fact conquer death. But, far from ascending into Heaven after the Resurrection, Jesus was condemned to expiate his sins (of blasphemous pride) by becoming a ghost, an "earthbound spirit...
...election followed a centuries-old formula. For four days electors were confined to the Society's headquarters at the Borgo Santo Spirito. When election day came, they attended a 5:30 Mass of the Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped...
Moviemakers could avoid audience confusion by sticking to a few simple, basic assumptions: either a ghost can always get through a closed door without any bother, or he should have trouble in every spook picture...
...from the greenhouses of the rich; the local miner's union donated a handmade altar. Even St. Michael ("the saint who took on Kid Lucifer and put him down and out for the full count") came across with a couple of helpful miracles, and the corpse's ghost made several personal appearances, clad in "a faded blue dress...