Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into busy TIME office last week stamped baldpated, hooknosed, bewhiskered Ghost Peter. No wearer of rings, there hung from his gird loins the Fisherman's Keys. Crashing through...
...mincer of words, though without his once reported "cursing & swearing," Peter stormed and threatened-threatened to close the Pearly Gates to the perpetrator of TIME'S misstatement. Ghost, Pontifex Maximus; follower, disciple, and first-commander under Founder Jesus Christ, but no founder of Church, Peter...
...rich man's ghost walked the faded red corridors of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. Singers backstage talked of little else. Board members held consultations over it. Newspapers gave front-page headlines to Augustus D. Juilliard, the name of the rich old, man who used to sit quietly and attentively listening to opera from...
American Dream (by George O'Neil; Theatre Guild, producer). Unlike Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Poet O'Neil makes no attempt to evoke the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost with dollar-silver in its saddle-horn, the pure elixir, the American thing. Poet O'Neil's preachment is the sort of cheap claptrap with which a third-rate evangelist might try to impress a young folks' Bible class. That it impressed the Guild's hard-headed production committee is cause for wonder...
...have seen more than a few of these, and they are not pretty to look at. Their eyes carry only the ghost of a dead mentality...