Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communique acting Reichsbischof Müller's words were branded as "inventions from the whole cloth and lies. The Chancellor belongs to the Catholic Church and has no intention of leaving it." Spiritually German Catholics breathed easier. Politically they were almost forced last week to give up the ghost. Utmost pressure was put on the Catholic Center Party to dissolve. Into their midst "The Doctor" stuck his sharp propaganda harpoon. "If I may be permitted," he sneered, "to give the Centrist party a piece of gratuitous advice it is this: CLOSE YOUR SHOP. There are no more customers coming...
...ARRIVED AT DUSK-R. C. Ashby- Macmillan ($2). A poltergeist that kills, so disturbs a young Londoner that his detective friend lays the ghost...
...most interesting article in the magazine is "The Betrayal in American Education," by H. M. Jones. It is not necessary to read many lines of this gloomy piece to discover the ghost writer of its dogmas. For a less violent but less concise statement of the snares and delusions of American utilitarian education--political, religious, and social, as well as academic, one should browse in the books of Professor Babbitt. Almost to a phrase the attacks on utilitarianism, immediacy, cheapness, indolence, and shying from moral and mental effort, emanate, seemingly, from the twilight of Sever 11. In American education...
...diners were led astray by the butler ("Toomes") into the dark, silent cellars, the broken conversational lines may remind the reader of de la Mare's famed relation, Robert Browning, but the theme and its unraveling are very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze of a mysterious beggar. Poet de la Mare loves not only poetic language...
...Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has "Cholly Angelo" (Mrs. Jean Loughborough) and gives prominent bylines to Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of Spain's Alfonso. Sh" tells most of her information to Mrs. Loughborough who ghost-writes it for her. In the Examiner the cinema colony has its own society department, run by Reine Davies (real name: Douras), sister of Film Actress Marion Davies. Headline-of-the-Week In the New York Times...