Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech which the King reads, but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's speech. And everyone knew, last week, that on the previous day the great Liberal peer, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, had ended his long political silence, had risen like a disturbing, provoking ghost, and had bitterly flayed the Conservative British Government for concluding with France the recent and notorious naval and military agreement or Pact (TIME...
...Ghost Grey reverberantly charged that, although the Pact is now defunct, it has so embittered Anglo-U. S. relations that only the most reassuring moves by the British Government can win back U. S. goodwill...
...children. When the girl is forced to marry a cattle-rustler to get away from her cousin's house, a drama, familiar in its conflicts but brooding, powerful, works up in the clapboard house battered by sand and by the wind which, according to Indian legend, is a ghost horse gone crazy in the sky. Not a work of genius but far better than the average movie story, this picture gives Miss Gish the best and in fact the only opportunity she has had since Way Down East for exercising the talent which has made her famous...
Confession, counsel, poured forth. One time Parson Faunce confessed that, as a sophomore lad, his roommate had told him a bawdy story. It so poisoned his mind that (even after years of speckless living) its smutty ghost soared before him. Students were interested, and speculated on the story. No one asked President Faunce to tell...
...occasion was the celebration of the first Red Mass or Mass of the Holy Ghost ever read in the U. S. Each year in France & England this Mass (differing from the conventional form only in the insertion of added prayers to the Holy Ghost) takes place on the day the courts open. Similarly it was timed last week in Manhattan. Many a non-Catholic barrister sat with the kneeling Catholic Lawyers' Guild,* heard words of good counsel from Jesuit Paul L. Blakeley, listened to Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Cardinal Hayes: "In Catholic countries the great Crucifix is suspended high?...