Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Followed by five shabby, placarded cronies from Greenwich Village, Novelist-Poet Maxwell Bodenheim (Georgia May, Ninth Avenue, Naked on Roller Skates) marched to a downtown Manhattan relief agency. At the door the five followers deployed, picketed, raised their placards: "Starvation Standards of Home Relief Make Real Ghost Writers." Real Ghost Writer Bodenheim, pale, unshaven and muss-haired, stormed inside, announced that he was "on the brink of starvation." He had applied for relief six weeks before, but none had come and his landlord had evicted him. He pointed to his threadbare clothes, dirty shirt, unlaced boots. Said...
Only a few summer tourists now go to Skagway, Alaska, but at the height of the Yukon gold rush (1897-98) 75,000 of them tumbled hopefully ashore to seek their fortune or somebody else's. Today Skagway is a ghost town, but one of its ghosts has left his mark-a 30-ft. skull carved on the face of a cliff. That is Skagway's memorial to Soapy Smith...
...authority of the Almighty Father, of the Son, of the Holy Ghost, by the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and all the Saints," goes the formula of the excommunication, "forced by the pressure of his contumacy, we excommunicate him with these words, and we proclaim him to be avoided until he shall have fulfilled that which is ordered so his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment." Last week Archbishop Diaz brandished this monstrous threat at Mexican traitors to the Church. He declared liable to excommunication...
...successive days last week the ghost of Johann Sebastian Bach hovered in the wings of Manhattan's Town Hall. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great composer's birth, Pianist Harold Samuel gave six Bach programs which, added together, took more than twelve hours. When the marathon was ended no member of the audience questioned Samuel's reputation as the prime interpreter of Bach's piano music. The 55-year-old Briton set about his task modestly, unaffectedly. At the piano he made a bulky unimpressive figure, seemed all forehead and shirt front...
...hounded his family-in-law until they finally confessed the crime. But Sylvelie, innocent accessory after the fact, was legally implicated in the murder. After terrific struggles of conscience Andi took a big chance, succeeded in getting the Lauretz case safely buried in the archives. Old Jonas' ghost was laid at last and the Lauretz family took their first deep breath in years...