Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonders for Egypt and that two years of Egyptian independence have performed greater marvels in restoring the chaos of the seventies. Now that Egypt has surrendered to the British demands, both London and Paris newspapers predict a restoration of the protectorate. To haunt the British mind anew, the ghost of Cecil Rhodes has been seen in Downing Street with the Cape-to-Cairo project under...
...Plantation" Miss Williams "Georgia Sunbeams" Miss Williams 3. "Old Black Joe" Audience 4. Silhouettes of Dixie: "A Mississippi Test of Love" "The Old Virginia Reel" (Banjo accompaniment) Miss Williams 5. "Way Down on the Suanee River" Audience 6. "Old Wash Up fer Moonshine" "The Haunted House. . (Negro ghost story) Miss Williams 7. "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" Audience 8. Cabin Folk Songs of Dixie (collected from life): "A Cottonfield Serenade" "Down in de Valley" "Sis Patsy" Miss Williams 9. My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight" Audience
England needs a Dr. Johnson. The doughty dogmatist who so conclusively laid the Cock Lane ghost could find in modern London hoaxes worthy of his bludgeon. In the interests of science, and of circulation, the Daily Sketch published pictures of spirit faces hovering over the Armistice Day celebration. All was deliciously serene until some clay-souled materialist noticed a remarkable likeness between the dim faces and those of Battling Siki, Jimmy Wilde, and other gentlemen of very earthly complexions. The Sketch has now denounced the photographs, but Conan Doyle and other highsouled enthusiasts have sprung to their defense...
...three-cornered one. Behind the figure of M. Hymans stands the energizing force of France, eager, even anxious, to perpetuate the old Entente. Always jealous of foreign influence over Belgium. England has viewed the Franco-Belgian alliance with suspicion. Haunting memories of Louis XIV persist like Marley's ghost. Since the new head of the Foreign Office, Austen Chamberlain, is said to favor such a Triple Entente, the proposal is opportune, and naturally emanates from Belgium...
...banks of the Charles; if one may believe what he reads. But Fate is cruel, and already the prying eye of the reformer is looking askance at these nocturnal festivities. The end cannot be far; the unwanted rollicking student may soon be nothing but a squeaking and thirsty ghost...