Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clark University's symposium on ghosts (TIME, Dec. 13), drew to a close. Frederick Bligh Bond, British psychic researcher and architect, described the helpful conduct of a departed spirit during excavating work at mystical Glastonbury Abbey, 20 years ago. A friend of Architect Bond's, one John Alleyne, had been the medium for messages in automatic writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey...
...serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost, David kneels, chafes the seeming corpse's slender, blue-veined wrists, and quite disregarding the tempest, whispers long, soulful entreaties that the visitor return to life. At length the angel's eyes, of divinest cerulean blue, open, and in accents of which the elegance is matched only...
...plot action. Therefore, till the second half of the last act, the play dawdles along without seizing upon the audience's imagination or sympathy. The Emperor Jones. Eugene O'Neill's play about a Negro whom terror drives from a golden, stolen throne into a ghost-jungle, is being acted again by Charles Gilpin. Theatregoers remember that, after the first season, Actor Gilpin's work was authoritatively acclaimed the finest acting of the year. Evidently the part has palled upon him, for his present work rings hollow, artificial. Yet for those who have never heard...
...Queen Marie disconcerted Mayor Kendrick by demanding to be driven through the most lurid section of Philadelphia's tenderloin to the small Rumanian Church of the Descent of the Holy Ghost...
...Ghost Train-It moves...