Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that his company carried no compensation insurance, would be able to give little financial aid to the dead miners' families. He expressed belief that the wrecked mine would be abandoned. It would be costly to restore, he said, and most miners would superstitiously refuse to work in its ghost-haunted galleries...
...Hoover nomination, campaigned through the Southwest, was the Hoovers' house guest at Inauguration. Favorite Hurley campaign expression: "A greater number of people have been happier under the American flag for a greater length of time than under the flag of any other nation." This phrase was ghost-written for him but, with characteristic onrushingness and vitality, he made...
...WILL-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In this book of essays Author Huxley writes about philosophers and their asininity; idealists; fashions in love; Baudelaire; how differently Wordsworth would have felt about Nature if he had visited the tropics. He accuses Swift of the modern sin against the Holy Ghost, sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even...
...necessary to show why they have a right to live. Every one of them, it is safe to assume, has justified its existence as a social institution. Yet when the House Plan threatens to force most of them, perhaps all of them, to give up the ghost, it seems only fair that the administration be duly considerate of all the circumstances, and protect the interests of the many organizations which have been so important in undergraduate life, and which at all times have worked at one with the stated policies of the faculty and administration...
Unfair of Foch. It was the ghost of Foch which kept Clemenceau writing night and day until he died, perhaps hastened his death. Journalist Raymond Recouly published last year Le Memorial de Foch, flaying Clemenceau's handling of the peace conference in words allegedly quoted from Foch. In almost a paroxysm of rage, Le Tigre began to write his reply, had it complete last week except for a few pages of revision. "It is unfair of Foch!" stormed Clemenceau again and again in the last few weeks. "He is no longer here to receive my reply! . . . I am finishing...