Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Robinson's other argument to leave liquor control exclusively to the States started a swirling debate around the ghost of the saloon. His deep chest heaving, Senator Robinson summed up after Senators Borah, Glass, Steiwer and Capper had been heard...
Next day there was a light wind and calm water for the third Bacardi Cup race. Everyone knew what that meant. Adrian Iselin's Ace, a ghost in light airs, already had taken a third in the first race, a first in the second, for 34 points, to 32 for her nearest rival, the Cuban Mara. Sure enough, heeling gently in the breeze, Ace was away fast and well ahead halfway around the 10-mile triangular course. On the last leg, Jahncke's Tempe III drew close in a puff of wind that Ace missed; the catspaw died...
Leider's Ghost...
...Metropolitan management was so fearful that news of last week's incident might hurt her reputation that it refused to admit her voice had failed her, that because she had felt dizzy and ill all through the performance Soprano Dorothee Manski had been stationed in the wings to ghost for her in just such an emergency...
...Republican progressives and twelve Democrats from the South and West plumped for silver. That did not indicate the full strength of the Senate inflationists because many a Soft Money man favors another method of devaluating the dollar. But for the time being the stalking ghost of William Jennings Bryan retired from the Senate chamber...