Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dani Holmgren, as the ghost of Charles' first wife, is often very good. She is prone to posture too much in an attempt to match Charles' description of her as "etherial," but this does not detract from her generally good acting...
...Cathedral, oldest Roman Catholic cathedral west of the Alleghenies, and made off with some of the art treasures inside. Among the nine paintings stolen: The Flaying of St. Bartholomew, attributed to Rubens, The Crowning of the Blessed Virgin, attributed to Murillo, and The Descent of the Holy Ghost, attributed to one of the Van Eyck brothers...
...Lorillard V (snuff and tobacco), with the aid of $1,500,000 and 1,800 personally imported Italian laborers, turned 600,000 acres of Ramapo Hills country into a select colony of stately pleasure domes. Once a "must" among top society resorters, it is now, by comparison, a social ghost town...
Charlie Dunkley was the first to dub Red Grange the Galloping Ghost. And when Fighter King Levinsky was knocked out by Jack Dempsey, Dunkley was on hand to report Levinsky's famed explanation, "I was in a transom...
...word for "spook" used to be "Snarly-Ghost," and naturally the person who told us kids spooky stories was a "Snarly-Ghoster." I believe that the word "snollygoster" is a degeneration of this expression...