Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven-day trial last April, a policeman testified that he attended a Duncan seance, tried to grab a ghost, instead caught Mrs. Duncan stuffing a white cloth down her bodice...
...Ghost Writer. In Brazil, relatives of the late Humberto de Campos said they intended to sue the Brazilian Spiritualist Federation for royalties on books purportedly written psychographically by the dead Humberto...
...newsy New York Times gave its story of Pentecost Mass a busy headline: HOLY GHOST HAILED AS SPIRIT OF LOVE. *Jointly accused with Admiral Kimmel is Major General Walter C. Short. Both are now on ihe voluntary retired list, drawing $6,000 annual pension...
Susan spends her time being mad about English traditions. She leaps like a mating 'salmon when she hears the word "baronet." Then she bumps into one named Sir John Ashwood (Alan Marshal), complete with a family ghost. Sir John is eager to squire her Down Roman roads where Caesar's legions marched, And follow Chaucer's steps to Canterbury...
...Treasury's 918 pages bristle with songs and stories about Paul Bunyan, Old Stormalong, John Henry, Johnny Apple, seed, The Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known, rarely published Americana. If they tell little about U.S. history, they tell much about U.S. character. Editor Botkin wisely keeps his comment to a minimum, lets his collection tell its own story in its own lingo...