Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ghost of the 1912 Wilson-Taft-Roosevelt presidential campaign-flitted last week about Washington, cast a spectral eye at the White House itself. One 1912 issue was "No Third Term for Roosevelt"; one 1928 issue may be "No Third Term for Coolidge." Last week Michael J. O'Shea of Worcester, Mass., said that in 1912 he had canvassed prominent Republicans to secure signatures to an anti-third term petition. Of the many signing, said Mr. O'Shea, one was State Senator Calvin Coolidge. Mr. O'Shea added that the signatures were made in duplicate, that one copy went to Washington...
...priceless bits which the volume contains would be impossible, also unnecessary since one can do much worse than go out immediately to buy a private copy. There is no telling at what unexpected moment it may become valuable. Especially if the Boston Censorship Board take a peek at "A Ghost Story, in the manner of Sherwood Anderson...
Copley--"The Ghost Train"--8.30 o'clock--If only such things did happen in railway stations...
...doubt that the smart, rich city people you pretend to know (and maybe do, for all I care) feel like pinning a medal (or at least like hanging a rope of pearls) on any of their women who manages to have a child and not give up the ghost...
Bernarr Macfadden publishes in his tabloid newspaper, the New York pornoGraphic, full, front page pictures of Rudolph Valentino's "ghost" in pajamas. He publishes composite faked pictures of old lechers, young miscegenators, alleged murderers, undressed girls. But Publisher Macfadden rises in dudgeon when similar liberties are taken with his own, more robust physique...