Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little mission. . . . As I sat in my chair ... the Holy Ghost fell from Heaven and a rushing mighty wind filled the room. This tongue that never spoke another word but English began to magnify and praise God in another language. I was speaking in Chinese, and it was the sweetest thing I ever heard in my life. The power of God shook my being. . . . The healing of my body was complete...
...crown as well as Austria's. Admiral Horthy, who had sworn fealty upon the Holy Bible to Otto's late Father Kaiser Karl, was called upon by that deposed monarch in his last years and commanded in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost to give back the Hungarian Throne to His Apostolic Majesty. This did not work. Clearly last week the idea of making "Emperor Otto" his own throne-squatter as Regent was among the best ideas the House of Habsburg has had in years. It was, however, not good enough to satisfy "Europe...
...into old mines of the Comstock Lode, from whose steaming depths some $700,000,000 worth of metal has been blasted since its discovery in 1859. In the purple days of the bonanza kings Virginia City was an easy-money centre of 30,000 people. Today it is a ghost town...
Lying on his cot in the white glare, Anacleto was suddenly terrified to hear, softly, susurringly, as if from the Beyond, the voice of his dead friend. "Tit me mataste, Anacleto," came the spectral murmur. "You killed me. I am Areo's ghost. You had better confess, Anacleto. You killed me. . . ." Frenzied, bewildered, Anacleto stood it two days, two nights. Then he leaped up screaming: "I'm guilty! I'm guilty! I'm guilty!" A police stenographer rushed in and got a full confession...
...Contra Costa deputies plumed themselves for several days on the astuteness of their "robot ghost" idea until the Mexican Consul lodged a strong protest against such third degree methods...