Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...henchman in the court of the Medici. He procures young girls for his cousin the duke, performs so many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio's own soul. To revenge himself, he finally kills his cousin-a scene made memorable last week...
...enough. Matt considered, for a Welland. Then it was Tom, who twice got away but whose gutlessness drove him back finally to stay. Jenny ran off one rainy night to be married, but her conscience drew her home and into the wreck that left her a spiteful cripple. The ghost of Sophie's lover, forbidden her because he was an agnostic, haunted her at last into suicide. Ruth's disastrous first marriage was used as a club to break her spirit. Only Carlotta came through unhurt, unstunted by the blight of her father's love...
...lives with his wife and daughter on Boar's Hill, five miles from Oxford, where his melancholy mien and rusty, plunging gait are a perennial peripatetic phenomenon. He founded the amateur Boar's Hill Players, who acted now Shakespeare, now Masefield; he himself once played the ghost in Hamlet, hinnying like a snipe...
...advertised should find little difficulty in hooking a fish without going through the formality of going fishing. The net result would be a solution of the deb problem for the current season, though there is a feeling that it would take more than one such solution to lay the ghost of the deb business permanently...
Both Miss Alexander and Mr. Williams do their utmost for the piece, but a composite ghost it still remains. Brown Buddies. The opinion that Bill Robinson, "The Dark Cloud of Joy," is the world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down...