Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final accounting for the members of the troupe that are left. To be sure, they have been laid low by tomatoes in a theatre too dismal to boast grapefruit; they have lost a hero and heroine to the London stage; and they have lost Jess, but somehow the corporate ghost of "The Good Companions" lives on and is not to be laid without special attention from the playwright. The audience never knows what happens to the old veterans. Instead, the curtain falls on Jess as he starts off for Canada, saw and hammer in hand, for new adventure...
...always accompanied by a comical little white bird. The little old man, who has wings, flops awkwardly about, annoying Comrades who sometimes smack him with a fly swatter while the little white bird squawks in terror. The little old man is labeled "God," the little white bird "Holy Ghost" and both are kept constantly in Red cartoons by the zealous efforts of Comrade Emilian Yaroslavsky, Leader of the Society of the Godless. In Moscow last week Godless Yaroslavsky lectured Soviet youths on morals, with particular reference to the question: "Is suicide permissible...
When he took his girls to London theatres he "often heard hisses about a Turk or an American Mormon being in the house." Highest spot of the summer's adventures was when he was almost caught after lights telling ghost-stories to eight of his bevy in one of their rooms (out of bounds). When Chaperone Lulu knocked on the door Walter hid under the bed. Chaperone Lulu suspected nothing, the girls kept straight faces till "one of Miss Lulu's respectable feet kicked an earthenware object under the bed. There was a musical 'ping,' immediately...
...midst. Then Jesus gave a loud And when Jesus had cry, and said, cried with a loud voice, "Father, I intrust my he said, Father, into thy Spirit to your hands!" hands I commend my With these words he spirit: and having said expired. thus, he gave up the ghost. Proverbs: 6: 9-11 How long will you How long wilt thou He, O sluggard? sleep, O sluggard? When will you rise When wilt thou arise from your sleep? out of thy sleep? "A little sleep, a Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, little slumber, a little A little...
...sisters did not so much die as join the ghosts that inhabited their house. Mary grew up and fell in love. Still Phoebe, dead but restless, threatened her, and still her mother's influence thwarted an almost materialized evil. In time Mary's son was sent to the house for a visit; the old warfare continued. With the outwardly insane but inwardly heroic death of Lucia, the last old lady. Author Spencer rings down the curtain on a ghost story that is also a subtly convincing psychological drama, a novel that might have been ghosted by Henry James himself...