Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often in the news. Few soldiers have been more tanned by the limelight. A fighter who enjoys his reputation, General Butler started scrapping early in life and has continued to fight it out on that line, letting the news stories fall where they may. With the help of Ghost-Writer Lowell Thomas he has laid all his scraps end to end, called it a life. Born a Pennsylvania Hicksite Quaker 52 years ago, Smedley Butler is "still one in good standing, so far as I know." Sixteen when the Spanish-American War was fanned into flame, young Smedley was eager...
...Walter Hagen, touring Scotland with young Densmore Shute, new British Open golf champion: three course records in three days; at Kingussie (64), Pitpochry (65), Inverness (64). ¶ Mrs. Dodge Sloane's Caesar's Ghost, shrewdly ridden by Jockey Dominick Bellizzi: the Saratoga Handicap in which Equipoise, favorite despite being assigned a weight impost of 142 lb., was scratched. ¶ William Miller, famed sculler of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club: his fourth U. S. singles championship in a row (a record); by one length over his clubmate, Al Vogt, in the challenge round of the National Association of Oarsmen...
...Once, as quite a young child going out for a walk with my nurse, I shouted: 'Three cheers for the Holy Ghost...
TRANSATLANTIC GHOST- Dorothy Gardiner-Crime Club...
...decades past have dispersed great corporations: Standard Oil, the tobacco trust, the sugar trust. But the anti-trust laws never stopped men from taking the advice given by every U. S. dollar: e pluribus enum. The mergers of 1929 carried that advice to extremes if not to absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created out of big and little ones, voluntarily and deliberately decide to disband-saw, grimmest...