Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert baby (first issue: 1,000 copies) is co-edited by two men born in Arizona ghost towns: Frederick Cromwell, 36; Harry Behn, 46, who wrote movie scenarios for Hell's Angels and The Big Parade. Both hope to draw more heavily on Yaqui and Papago folklore than on the literary curiosa that usually deadens quarterlies. Best bets...
...This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms...
...said the Tsar eagerly, elbowing his wife's ghost...
...leave Nicky alone with those sharpers! He never could do anything without me. Besides, I doubt if you know what it's like to be a ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m'effraie-The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Pascal said that, you know. Not bad for a man who had never been liquidated. And then," the Tsarina added, "Stalin overran Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania...
...dimly lighted stage, a doctor appears to draw sausages and a balloon out of a G.I.'s gaping shoulder-while an announcer tells a ghost story...