Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What living ghost now writes Herbert Hoover's speeches? Who did formerly? What significance in the change...
...Living Ghost Hoover...
...Andre Bobola, Polish Jesuit (1592-1657), Giovanni Leonardi Italian founder of a religious congregation (1541-1609), Salvador da Horta (1520-67), humble Spanish Franciscan lay brother. Thrice the lawyers begged the Pope-instanter, instantius and instantis-sime-to grant the canonizations. The Pope, imploring the guidance of the Holy Ghost, pronounced a formula of sanctification for each saint, then intoned a prayer while the bells of St. Peter's and all the churches in Rome rang...
...squat Actor Will Fyffe's burring phrases difficult to understand, his meaning never. Veteran Actor Fyffe's renown as a folksy character is one of the brightest in Britain. His career as an entertainer started in his teens, when in one night he played a gravedigger, the ghost and a strolling player in Hamlet, did a blackface curtain piece and closed the evening with a clog dance, all for four shillings, eleven pence. But his greatest acclaim has been from the music halls where his variety turns have topped bills all over the English-speaking world. Already...
...Tendre Ennemie (Eden Productions), like The Ghost Goes West and Topper, makes spooks into amiable comedians. Without the sparkle and ingenuity of its predecessors, it is nevertheless a great show of trick photography. Its three ghosts all died for love of the same woman. Forgathered in a French mansion to save her daughter from marrying the wrong man, they find that humans walking back & forth through them give them the tickles. Out in the garden, where there is less traffic, they sit down for a cigaret. Two ghosts light up, offer the same match to the other...