Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today lean, brittle Maximilian Harden is the tenant of a grave (TIME, Nov. 7). Doubtless his ghost was in a towering rage, last week; because the fat, poodle-nosed man whom he had called "King Gustav" was quietly celebrating his fifth anniversary as German Foreign Minister. The Poodle-Man is Dr. Gustav Stresemann.* He celebrated at Oberhof, a Thuringian spa, where he has been convalescing from an almost fatal kidney attack (TIME, May 28). Telegrams, cables and flowers poured in, for Dr. Stresemann is the outstanding and most potent German statesman. He has held the Foreign Ministry while nine Cabinets...
...Dugan "the hottest little wench that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted greeting card salesman-"a sweet boy, but he's so full of sediments;" her Argentine gaga, passionate Alvarez Romano; her sugar daddy, high-powered banker; her ghost writer on the Evening Tabloid. The jealous Argentine stabs the sugar daddy, the newspapers take Dixie up, the Evening Tab kidnaps her (offering a reward), and Dixie is off to a good start. Show Girl is excellent burlesque. And it makes amusing reading. But enough is enough. In fact...
...Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From...
...rose to conclude the debate with a soft-soapy appeal for TOLERANCE-tolerance of the Book, he appeared to mean. At this crux of debate, the battle of prayers-still raging across the street in Westminster Abbey-reached a climax of Evangelical appeals to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost;* while Anglo-Catholics did not scruple to additionally beseech the Virgin Mary, her mother St. Anne, and many another saint...
...GENERAL'S RING?Selma Lagerlof ?Doubleday Doran ($2.00). Genius is sometimes dependable. Selma Lagerlof, ripe with the years and their laurels, can still spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold...