Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a loquacious ghost living in the White House. It appears only to newspaper men and is known as the Official Spokesman. Out of its ectoplasmic mouth come the public bulls of the President of the United States. Time has made the reporters accustomed, though not resigned, to the Official Spokesman. Once a subject for jest, it has come to be accepted by them as a grim reality. Since the executive is speechless, and since someone must talk, the correspondents go weekly into a scance with the Official Spokesman...
...Significance. It remained for a Frenchman, a world-wide knockabout himself, to resurrect this California Midas whom our swarming old-Americana hunters have overlooked. Perhaps Sutter was put from memory for conscience's sake, but now he is back, a mighty, marvelous, golden ghost. Author Cendrars's rushing historical present is a handsome medium for the sweep of such fortunes and fates. If he has anywhere exaggerated, which seems inevitable, who cares...
...What cinema actor is called the "Galloping Ghost...
...Ghost Train-Snorting mystery on funny lines...
...Mater Parmalee needs seven points to win. Star halfback "Red" Wade sits on the sidelines because his father does not believe in rough sports and the coach thinks he ("Red") has been drinking. One minute to play -vindication-substitution-"Red" Wade has the pigskin under his arm. The Galloping Ghost is off-long strides, mighty stiff-arm, eely hips, a broken field-a touchdown, a kicked goal, and victory. "Red", of course, is vindicated before the college, his father, his sweet-lipped Sally Rogers...