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Word: ghosted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's more prominent literary critics has dryly commended that Margaret Webster apparently considers herself the owner of a private pipeline to the ghost of Shakespeare. She has been known in the past to doctor up her productions for modern consumption, and she has done it again by lifting Prosperous famous "We are such stuff as dreams are made of speech and using it at the final. It may not be true to art, but it is a highly effective outran. Miss Webster has used her pipeline well in "The Tempest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

...glamorous ball-carriers of 20 years ago are carrying the ball again. Last week Illinois' Galloping Ghost of 1924 joined two of Notre Dame's famed 1924 Four Horsemen to form a ruling triumvirate of pro football: 1) ex-Horseman Elmer Layden, now serving his third season as $20,000-a-year commissioner of the National League; 2) ex-Horseman Jim Crowley, named last fortnight as the boss of the newly organized All-America Conference; 3) Harold ("Red") Grange, elected president of the also-projected U.S. League. Still to be heard from was Trans-America, the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triumvirate | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Latest of the fast-growing list of "Chase Chorus Boys" is the eminent and spindly-legged Randy "Ghost" Phillips. Shades of Hollywood and Vine Appeared as the patrons of the Latin Quarter viewed the night beauty contest, and Phillips' frail physique. For dead old Harvard, Randolph came through, and received a bottle of wine for his efforts...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/5/1944 | See Source »

...Poles, caught and crushed between the devastating German and Russian juggernauts in 1939, had yielded up their national ghost, few could have blamed them. In no other conquered country were the prospects of a successful resistance movement more dangerous and disheartening. But an underground was organized. And unlike most underground soldiers, Jan Karski has lived to tell the tale. His book is, in part, one of the most vivid adventure stories of the war. But more, it is a powerful document in the case for Polish independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impersonal Adventure | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

During room inspection the other day, the inspecting officer was about to mark Randy Phillips down for not making his sack. "The Ghost"saved the day by speaking a helpless word while lost in the white of his sheets. "No more of this," said the inspecting officer, and now Phillips sleeps between two raincoats for contrast...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

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