Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When they say that any law is arbitrary or unreasouable, they must mean that it appears so to them. The judges of the supreme court talk of the Holy Ghost that hovers over their decisions. This Holy Ghost is merely the odd man of the nine justices...
What about her real belief? Is that Presbyterian too? I think not-Presbyterians are not apists of the Papists! Nor do they bow down and worship any but the trinal God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...pastors' suspicions were borne out next day when the Nazi Government angrily unmasked a decree that Realmleader Hitler had signed early in the week. This gave to Minister Kerrl, who has called the Reichsfuhrer "the Jesus Christ as well as the Holy Ghost of the Fatherland," absolute dictatorial powers over all Protestant churches in Germany...
There is one ghost that stamps itself unforgettably on The Return of Peter Grimm: the shaggy white-haired shade of the late David Belasco, its original author, director and producer. When in 1911 Belasco turned out this play, he put so much of himself into it that he used to confide to friends: "Like Shakespeare, this, I think, will live forever." Defying two theatrical decades, The Return of Peter Grimm continues to fulfill its author's boast...
...Donald Budge has already collected more than 70 tennis trophies, which are scattered about the Budge home at Oakland. He has a taste for white tennis rackets; the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for whom he was a wrapping clerk last winter, has designed one especially for him called "The Ghost." A phlegmatic, gentle youth, so homely that even his mother smiled when a friend said that, if not the best tennis player in the world, her son was certainly the ugliest, young Budge is likeable but undistinguished off a tennis court. He barely graduated from high school a year...