Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other characters shed varying degrees of light. One was a cattle drover. Out of animal fear, to lay the ghost of a girl he had beaten dead, he protected a girl whom someone else had seduced. Another was a hulking bank clerk, one Malden. He was benevolent toward chess, Nature and Rose Netley. Rose, was a social worker to whom all fallen girls were "sisters," She did a certain amount of temporary good in an enthusiastic...
...They have either flunked or passed. What's done is done. So why worry? At least that's the way juniors, sophomores, and freshmen think seniors ought to feel, for with them matters are quite otherwise. With these unfortunates what's done is not done. And worse still, the ghost of what's undone rattles its bones and joins forces with the specter of what's yet to do. It Robert Browning had been the true optimist and friend of mankind he is reputed to be, he would have written...
...worked for on political grounds. . . . The activity of these propagandists upon so-called scientific and humanitarian grounds seems loudly to call for a more active defense of civic integrity and personal purity against these Shavian-Wellsian-Sanger ian-Onanists who work to defile the temple of the Holy Ghost." The Commonweal, organ of the Calvert Society, replied to Margaret Sanger's opinions by disputing her premises. Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her. But it was left for Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Arch bishop of New York, in his pastoral letter, last Sunday, to mark...
...kind and hospitable entertainment extended to its oarsmen and takes this opportunity to express its gratitude to Princeton. Courtesies of this nature do much to strengthen intercollegiate bonds, and in these days when petty jealousies and rivalries are often magnified to formidable proportions, only cordial relations can lay the ghost of extra-mural comment. Princeton's hospitality is but another expression of that unbroken friendship which has long characterized the pleasant relations of the two universities...
Little interest was shown in the election, largely because it was widely realized that no candidate had a ghost of a chance of securing an absolute majority...