Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London publicity agents easily persuaded helpful Queen Mary to attend, in the space of a fortnight, the cinema premieres of The Ghost Goes West (see p. 57) and George Arliss...
...millions of dollars on a marble palace only to have even one Supreme Court Justice feel dwarfed and impotent in it. Or perhaps Justice Stone, chafing at the oblivion of a minority opinion, has purposely prepared a bitter brew for his colleagues. At any rate he has caused a ghost to stalk through the pillared halls of the Supreme Court, but it is hoped that the phantom will haunt no one but Justice Stone himself...
Behind every refusal lay suspicion that the real purpose of the conference was to raise the Blue Eagle's ghost, put new flesh & feathers on it. Gist of each declination: "We are recovering nicely by ourselves. All we ask the Government to do is to leave us alone." Attributing objections to "a bad case of NRA jitters," Coordinator Berry announced on the party's eve that acceptances of his 5,200 invitations were running about 99% for Labor, 70% for Industry. Unemployment and taxation, he thought, would be the chief subjects of discussion. Coordinator Berry was primed...
...hoard of gold hidden in an ancient chest. The beginning is gay with folk tunes. Villagers dance in the market place. Thereafter gloom prevails. Gale, for whom Leginska named her opera, murders his brother, hides the body in a cave near the sea, never succeeds in escaping its ghost...
...medieval chapters Author Kirstein makes much of the fanatic Dance of Death which he calls a tombstone to medieval mentality. It was at the time of plagues that Death appeared as "a graveyard ghoul, a chilling spectral horror . . . frightening now only to listeners of ghost stories or children whistling past cemeteries." Its influence was tremendous. When the bubonic scourge swept Europe in 1373 wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely...