Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly familiar odor of Ham and Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
Other charges: 1) Sworn affidavits testified to 8,000 "ghost" voters; 2) gambling and vice are wide open in Kansas City; 3) it is notorious as a hangout for the criminal riff-raff of the Midwest; 4) Desperado Harvey Bailey was arrested while playing on one of the city's best golf courses; 5) Verne Miller had played in a foursome with Police Director E. C. Reppert shortly before he machine-gunned to death four State and Federal officers in Kansas City's Union Station plaza last June;* 6) the $200,000 payoff in the Urschel kidnapping case...
...articles have appeared and one man's guess concerning the outcome is as good as another's. One thing is certain. There is no appeal from a sentence for contempt of court, and if the penalty is inflicted, the Record's now famous ghost writer will be given a chance to get his information first-hand...
...have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with ghost writers...
...great spiritual experiences come only at a high cost. And this one has given the world something that has beauty, a beauty that burns with a hard, gem-like flame. Its perfection is marred by only one thing; we wish to God that the Record would get a better ghost writer...