Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the statement by Harry H. Porter, President of the National Safety Council, that in his opinion at least 60 per cent of all automobile accidents in 1937 were due to drunken driving, the ghost of John Barleycorn once again raises its dissipated head. In spite of the desperate attempts of national brewers to press his pants and give him an old-fashioned face-lifting, it is the same old man that haunted prohibition societies in the early nineteen hundreds. He is back again; and unless he has mended his ways--which is exceedingly doubtful, considering the nature...
...averaging 212 pounds per man from tackle to tackle, was even better now than they were at the close of last season. The scouts spoke of the "catlike" ability of all American Brud Holland in tones of awe and they fairly sang the praises of the "ghost-runner" George Peck, who piled up most of the running back punt yardage, 162 to be exact...
...Stink (Ho-tah-moie), circa 75, famed Osage Indian recluse; in Pawhuska, Okla. One of the many legends about him: Down with smallpox about 50 years ago, he went into a coma, was thought dead, put out for the vultures. When he revived, his tribesmen treated him as a ghost, ostracized...
...Germans believed this, Psychologist Hitler had laid the haunting ghost of the Fatherland-the fear of millions that another War would throw Germany back into the misery and semi-starvation of 1918. In Nürnberg, the Sudeten Germans' "Little Führer" Konrad Henlein suddenly arrived to confer with the Big Führer, went to bed with a very bad cold. Envoys of the Great Powers were received at tea by strict Teetotaler Hitler, and British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson was tantalized by not being able to talk to the Dictator before so many people about anything...
...really close touch with China's people, and in Manhattan arrived last week Dr. Walter H. Judd. fresh from work in Japanese-conquered territory, and Dr. Robert McClure who has been Director of the International Red Cross in Central China. They agreed that Japan "does not have the ghost of a chance to win the war," since what they have seen convinces them that the Japanese Army of Occupation, sniped at and harassed day & night by Chinese guerrillas, is "slowly bleeding to death." As an example, the missionary doctors described how a Japanese division...