Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netty, a French brassière, is displayed by a curvy salesgirl busily selling ties to two gallant Gallic gentlemen. Ever so often, as the salesgirl writhes closer to the counter, she dissolves like a nervous ghost, leaving only a suddenly unoccupied bra for her customers to gape...
...Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed through 40 years...
...impressive: Charles W. Thayer, brother-in-law of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and himself a career diplomat (including four years in Russia) turned freelance writer (Bears in the Caviar, The Unquiet Germans). Thayer's job was to act as combination guide and ghost...
...tried, so she tried them. Perhaps the most intriguing of her films was the only one she ever made with both her brothers, Rasputin and the Empress. In 1936 she announced her retirement from the stage; scarcely a year later she was back on the boards in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. In 1940 her portrayal of the wise, warmhearted schoolmistress in The Corn Is Green became her greatest triumph. Audiences still cheered her on to her familiar curtain-call farewell: "That's all there is, there isn't any more...
Last week, when the new National Assembly met to consider its rules, the ghost of the Fourth Republic rose against the Fifth. The new Fifth's constitution permits parliamentary votes only on formal votes of censure, on bills or on declarations made by the government. In the guise of laying down new procedural rules, Deputies sought to revive Tunisification. In the most brilliant speech of his career, Premier Michel Debre, the man most responsible for the new constitution, stood firm against this challenge. Freely admitting that as a Senator during the Fourth Republic, he had himself been "a master...