Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton had a ghost student named Henry Thompson, invented by a member of the mathematics department who playfully filled out papers in his name while supervising entrance examinations in Chicago. Henry Thompson was admitted but never appeared to register. Most ingenious recreation of Joe Gish was Ephraim di Kahble, conceived in 1935 by a group from the then freshman class. The freshmen rented and furnished a boarding house room for Ephraim di Kahble, inserted an advertisement under his name in the Daily Princetonian offering a free ride in a Lincoln phaeton to the Yale game in New Haven which drew...
...later the Flemish Van Dyke came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. Richly represented was the capable if uninspired work of British official portraitists. Among the best was Gerald F. Kelly's picture of the late famed Provost of Eton and writer of immortal ghost stories, Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James...
...part of his crew were plentiful but it took weeks to pick cadets who were not too obviously neurotic misfits. Of women applicants he could have had enough to pack the Joseph Conrad in a day. On Oct. 22, 1934, carrying a crew of eight nationalities, looking like the ghost of Bligh's Bounty, the 212-ton, three-masted Joseph Conrad sailed from Harwich to follow the route of Captain Cook around the world. Chronicling the 57,800-mile voyage which ended two years later, Author Villiers lets his prose swell under full press...
...chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes) in the Fallen irrigation district; its abundant game-deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, duck, pheasant, sage hen, quail and myriad trout-there is little...
...Ghost stories are rare in contemporary fiction. But their traditional stage properties-creepy old houses, strange cries at night, creaking witches who mumble obscurely-are still standbys for romantic novelists who exclude the supernatural from their tales. Last week the Book-of-the-Month Club offered its members a weird, wild-eyed novel that has all the elements of a good ghost story except a ghost. To compensate for this deficiency, most of the large cast of characters who figure in Shining Scabbard are a shadowy and illusive folk, bearing so little resemblance to ordinary humans they might easily...