Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigate himself (TIME, Dec. 5). How an alleged non-Governor could convene the Legislature, the legislators did not explain. Perhaps they thought Mr. Johnston would know because among his reputed misdemeanors was taking an interest in things psychic. But Mr. Johnston gave the legislators' requests not even the ghost of a serious reception. When 110 legislators assembled two weeks ago in Oklahoma City and notified him that the Legislature was in special session, he said to their committee: "Your body has a legal right to meet as citizens only and not as a branch of the legislative body...
...brief, "The Ghost Train" is a sad, sad, business, a mystery show in which every customary spooky manifestation is trotted on, from the waving of mysterious crimson lamps outside the windows to the usual unexplained noises made by a stagehand hitting a cracker box with a bungstarter in the hope of representing, we suppose, a spectral game of craps...
...parts of the rascally smugglers. He might be able to do a Pygmalion with the coat check girl if he could teach her cockney, and there is a scene in Mr. Pinero's "Magistrate" where the waiter would fit in nicely but it's all very quaint in "The Ghost Train...
Copley -- "The Ghost Train," 8.20 o'clock. With a forty weeks run last year. To be reviewed...
...Graphic made its contest so difficult that none but experienced puzzlers had a ghost of a chance, and so expensive (an entry cost from $9 to $12) that comparatively few of their regular readers tried the game. Those of them who did participate endeavored to find the best answers in a catalog of over 6,000 titles in small print, whereas the so-called experts purchased for $1 each lists of answers compiled by other experts, which contained about 40 titles per picture, and from these short lists they made their selections that won the big money...