Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood character actor; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Born in Winfield, Kans., where his actor-parents were playing a one-night stand in East Lynne, Actor Pallette made more than 1200 films, first as a juvenile lead in the Norma Talmadge era, later as an archetypical funny fatman (The Ghost Goes West, Heaven Can Wait...
...became peaceful, were assimilated by the people they had conquered; the city prospered even after the Roman legions came in 273 B.C., and called it Paestum. But as the Roman Empire declined and malaria spread from the nearby swamps, Paestum died. By 800 A.D. it was a forest-shrouded ghost city. Forgotten, it was bypassed by war and progress and written off as "nothing but a sun-baked collection of fine columns and a pile of worthless stones...
...Laurence Olivier in The Canterville Ghost...
...Grey Ghost had come back. Last week, at Saratoga Springs. Native Dancer, one of the finest thoroughbreds ever to run on an American track, went to the starting gate (in a betless race) for the first time since May and romped home a winner. The champ seemed fit and fully recovered from the bruised foot that forced him into temporary retirement (TIME, June...
When Nevada became the Union's 36th state, the bonanzas petered out and Virginia City became a ghost town. Its weekly's noblest achievement probably came at news of the Union victory over the South. For three days the Enterprise published nothing, not even the victory news. Writes Author Beebe: "Its staff, from owner to the least apprentice, was dissolved in [a] universal sea of whisky...