Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beethoven's piano, modestly replied: "I am not worthy to touch it." But "Give 'em Hell" Harry sat right down and played a sonata of Mozart's on Mozart's own piano, right in front of Mozart's portrait. I can imagine the irascible ghost of Wagner muttering "Squirrelhead...
...proposition: that Bob move in as Sanders' ghost artist while she and the cartoonist are off on their honeymoon. Additional comedy is supplied by Pearl Bailey, who doubles as narrator and songbird when she is not pretending to be Sanders' maid, as well as by a small boy (Jerry Mathers) and a large shaggy dog. With this much to go on, Hope sets about rewinning Eva Marie with all the tested ingredients of farce, from pratfalls to bedroom scenes to hurry-up exits and entrances. Everything winds up in a final bedlam as Cartoonist Sanders' apartment...
Professor (of social studies) Wootton gave no pat prescription for resolving the dilemma, but confided: "For my own part I must confess that I can never listen to panegyrics of mental health as smooth personal adjustment without being haunted by the ghost of that most misfitting of all misfits-Florence Nightingale. Had that astonishing woman been born of this generation, must we suppose that a Child Guidance Clinic would have put an early stop to all her nonsense...
...Military Historian Vagts (The History of Militarism, Landing Operations), the legend of Eustace the Monk grew up after England's naval victory at the Battle of Dover on Aug. 21, 1217 where the defeated French leader Eustace, a mercenary soldier and "master of pirates," was beheaded. His ghost and invisible ship were detected by one Stephen Crabbe of England...
Cosmopolis, Wash., which became a ghost town in the mid-'20's when loggers cut the last stand of nearby virgin fir, was coming back to life last week. Roaring through the long-silent streets, construction gangs completed the main building of a $20 million plant in which Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. will next year turn second-growth timber into pulp products...