Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation for the inclusion of the last two plays in the list; he is of the opinion that the censor is haunted, that theatrical spooks are making a hell of his life and that loudly banning plays which almost everyone has forgotten about is his method of laying the ghost. Mr. Parker, I hardly need add, is not being humorous and is offering his solution of a very, puzzling problem in all seriousness; and Mr. Parker, I think, is right. Ghosts are the only explanation of censorship psychology...
...remark: "I am sure that such a lecture would be very interesting and well attended. It should also be very entertaining, especially if the man talks the way he writes, for I could make nothing of the scheming waddle that appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON," I'll have the ghost of Hamlet answer this...
...Barcelona, Spain police arrested the husband and mother-in-law of the late Amelia Sangino, charged that Amelia Sangino, ailing, had been frightened to death when her mother-in-law dressed up as a ghost, hovered about her bed while her husband moaned in a room overhead...
Meanwhile there was drawing to a close last week a nation-wide reaffirmation of faith in Jesus Christ and His final command: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...
...Soviet and the League were long the sole anomalies in a world system which was centered around nationalism. Now that the League is little more than a ghost and Russia has discarded her central idea, a startling similarity of national ideals and state structure prevails. Unfortunately, to the disinterested observer, this international uniformity is unpleasantly suggestive only of that which characterizes a madhouse...