Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...darkened, Conjurer Dunninger caused the paper to be snatched away and returned it with this phrase inscribed upon it: "A word from Houdini." Then there protruded from the curtain a "spirit hand" which the magician later admitted to be a paraffin sheath. Conjurer Dunninger said he would make the ghost of Houdini come; at this a spectre mewed at the newsmongers. Two slates bound together were found to have on their previously blank surfaces silly messages purporting to come from Rudolph Valentino, from Harry Houdini. A sheet of paper bearing identification marks was locked in a tin box; reporters selected...
...draw some comfort from the very fact that caused his withdrawal, however, for Smith's victory shows that opposition to the party's only hope is fast receding. Anti-Catholics, drys, and anti-Tammany men alike cannot but admit that no one of their candidates would have the ghost of a show in a nation-wide contest with Smith, and the policy of backing the winner is claiming more and more of them as the Smith delegates pile up. Hoover, to be sure, is making even greater inroads into the strength of the various "favorite sons...
When weighing the publication in the scales of preparation for life it were unfair to place scholarship itself in the other scalepan. The undergraduate attitude at Harvard is a nebulous thing on many points, but not on this one. And since the ghost of the Big-Man-in-His-Class shows only a periodic taste for walking, it seems fair to believe that Harvard undergraduate publications offer the same reward as any other serious, nonathletic outside activity of college life: experience with human beings...
...more will the Vagabond be in imminent danger of contracting pneumonia from having to walk through the muddy slush of Massachusetts Avenue, as he makes his way to the shines of learning. From hence forth his steps will be bent through the pleasant lush valleys, flitting like a ghost under the shimmering moonlight of former nights of striving to separate the pure gold from ore, the grains of knowledge from the chaff of the win-nower of learning. And the danger to his health will be immensely reduced...
Wheeler was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of "Pecksniff to his daughters" by Charles Dickens. Vaccaro won the Boylston award of $50 with the poem "The Laughters" by Louis Untermeyer. Weaver, reciting "Abraham Lincoln" by Booker T. Washington, and Peterson, reciting "The Admiral's Ghost" by Alfred Noyes were awarded the two $30 Boylston prizes...