Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whitsunday:--"Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire...
...objection to the modern dance is that it is immodest and lacking in grace. It is not based on a natural and harmless instinct for rhythm, but on a craving for abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern: "We're a dizzy people. The shimmy proves that, without the ghost of a need for further proof". From the New York University News: "Overlooking the physiological aspects of women's clothing there is a strong moral aspect to this laxity of dress. . . . There is a minimum of clothes and a maximum of cosmetics, head-decorations, fans and jewelry. It is, indeed...
...Rufus Dubb, W. B. Leach Jr. '21 Arthur Dubb, D. T. Eaton '21 Barbara, H. E. Scott Jr. '23 Mrs. Gwendolyn Dubb, A. A. Fisk Jr. '22 Tai Lo, M. H. Dill 1S.L.A. Boozer Bill Buxton, W. V. M. Fawcett '21 Steve the Sticker, P. L. Cheney '21 The Ghost of-Captain Kidd, W. H. Kenyon Jr. '21 The Soothsayer, C. C. Macomber '22 The Rajah, P. O. Chalmers Unc. Sadie, L. B. Ellis...
...psychic play in Boston, and its continued appropriateness today shows, perhaps, the small advance which psychic research has made in the last decade. The dialogue at the close of the third act may appear to some persons rather too one-sided and long; to others the bits of ghost humor may seem out of place, but when Peter Grimm finally leaves this world to return no more; everyone with an artistic sense carries home the impression of seeing drama at its best...
...rich flower gardener who boasts of his old Dutch ancestry. In his household are his ward. Catherine, a nephew and a secretary. For the life of each Peter Grimm has a set plan, made without consulting the persons most concerned in its fulfilment. He dies suddenly, returns as a ghost to his house, and sees the ill-conceived plans changed as he himself would have had them, had he been enlightened as to their consequences. The two weeks for which the play is scheduled to run here is but a short time for a piece of such dramatic worth...