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Word: ghosts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dolores Cemetery, Tacubaya, Mexico, a white ghost made off with a tombstone, was surprised by a grave watchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...some detail, the editor explained how "Tough Luck" was acquired. It had been sold to Liberty, he said, through one T. Everett Harre, literary agent and "ghost writer," for $750.* For proof he displayed the original manuscript which bore the signature of Miss Oelrichs on its first and last pages. "Harré paid Miss Oelrichs for the article, giving her his personal check for $200," Mr. Annenberg said. "It assigns for that amount all rights in the article." Sighed Mr. Harre: "It's a tough business, this ghost-writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberty Liberties? | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Christy Mathewsoris ghost was one Joe O'Neill, Manhattan newsman. Player Mathewson was not in the habit of reading his "writings" as written by Mr. O'Neill, even after they appeared in print. "He never could understand why Snodgrass snarled at him in the dugout one day," Mr. Broun relates. "He was not aware that in his current essay he had taken the outfielder to task for the manner in which he played a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ghost Writing | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Budapest state asylum last week alienists admitted that there was little hope for Ghost-watcher Dr. Sattler's mental recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Ghost Watch | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Brokenshire of Manhattan's Station WABC. In competition with the police, he set out to apprehend the thieves. Next evening, during his dark seance, Dr. Workman was murdered. Announcer Brokenchild's efforts at detection were misinterpreted; he nearly went to jail as a colleague of the insidious "Ghost Gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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