Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley--The Ghost Train. 8.30 o'clock...
...Philadelphia stalwarts. It will be remembered, however, that Mr. Pinchot has passed out before. Once a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt, he quarreled with President Taft in 1910 and was ousted from the important chairmanship of the U. S. Bureau of Forestry. Years later, in 1922, he arose like a ghost of a rebel past, surprised everyone by being elected Governor. His administration has had its successes: he gave the state a budget system, cut expenditures, reduced the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. To the public he is known chiefly as an ardent Prohibitionist...
...month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale. For the last 100 years it has been held by the Lane family who are now forced to let it go at auction, with its Georgian manor house, its 13 farms, its 27 houses, its oak inn and its ghost of a lady upon a white horse...
...Denver harbors more than a ghost of the rip-roaring West that was. The vocabulary has altered little. The barroom brawls that once fascinated a robust populace are not extinct. They have merely been transferred, noise, color and violence intact, to the newspapers. How that transfer came about, and how the latest, loudest, most violent brawl of all is progressing, is a story that begins in a small Chicago printshop at the time of the World's Fair...
Copley--The Ghost Train--8.30 o'clock. Clive presents his five hundredth play--almost all mysteries like this...