Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of course, but always men who could never hide their great hearts") is a little wearing. But the comicalities of Hibernian dialect cover a multitude of insincerities: " 'It is given up to me,' said Jamesy complacently, 'to be the best teller of a ghost story in all Kerry. Paddy Joe Long is good, an' Rogue McCoy, me curate, is damn' good, but give me two pints an' I'll make your eyes crooked an' you tryin' to look through the back of your head...
...Baruch scoffed at the idea of retiring: "I guess no one will say I won't be plenty busy. . . . There'll be no ghost writing. I'm going to do it myself." But no one was more aware than "Bernie" Baruch that he was announcing the end of a unique business career. The U. S. has had a multitude of daring and successful speculators but it has no other Baruch...
...stopped. Said May: "I've accepted Christ. I'm a changed man." Into a bathtub of cold water he wedged himself. Down under the water Mr. Kelly shoved his head. Said Mr. Kelly: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Up came Murderer May, prepared to meet his death...
...postmaster's flirtatious wife, the village swains, masons. et al. Readers to whom Scandinavian literature is synonymous with gloom will find themselves agreeably surprised into many a chuckle over the mock courtship of Druggist Holm and Fru Hagen; the rival evangelists and their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely, out of politeness to the guest's linguistic shortcomings, in peasant profanity). In a rousingly successful benefit concert the final number was an extempore alphabet duet by the two drunken principals...
Sheriffs, deputies, policemen, constables, state troopers, Federal agents, some 10,000 strong, were last week led a merry chase by Desperado John Dillinger and Dillinger's ghost...