Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashioned about Love and Death and Vanity because these are common concern of the race. So is Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr. Workman was broadcasting questions with ghost-given answers. The studio was plunged in darkness, for only so could he connect with his wise phantoms. Whereupon an ugly bevy of Chicago's finest gunmen entered, stripped the jewelry from some debutantes who were about to advertise a Junior League extravaganza...
...were speeches on the Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...
...Neill in which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane, sent her out to follow the fancied ghost of a long-dead lover. Actors from Dayton, Ohio, were concerned with Zanzibar. Three Manhattan companies dealt, respectively, with Japan, Petrograd, the Crystal Caverns...
...specimen of the verse (Cavender with his wife's ghost...
...been in existence many years, and I do not believe the newspapers of the country, chained or unchained, ever had better editors than today, were ever edited more intelligently, conscientiously than now." ¶ Executive Editor Ik Shuman of the Brooklyn Standard-Union told how he was one of seven "ghosts" who wrote articles signed by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Said President Walter M. Harrison of the Society: "After this ... I would be ready to believe that former President Coolidge isn't writing his own magazine articles except that I know so capable an editor as Ray Long wouldn...