Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like the ghostly emanations once thought to hover around dead bodies, posthumous books still give their authors a kind of ghostly currency. So frequent and lively have been the emanations from the late prolific Edgar Wallace that his publishers have had to issue a denial that a ghost was writing them and an admission that more are still to come. But in the case of David Herbert Lawrence these two books are the windup of his literary affairs. Any further remarks from the tomb can hardly affect his reputation one way or the other. Until the critic grave-robbers begin...
...film begins with a hunting party at the castle of the Duke, includes a 100% bourgeois ghost and ends when the Duke in a proper passion vents his jealous rage upon the naughty Duchess?there being no Red moral. A few years ago Mme Lunacharsky played the role of prostitute-heroine in a film
...Receive the Holy Ghost." The Cardinal imposed his hands, anointed the Bishop-elect's head and hands, thrice prayed "Whatsoever thou shalt bless, may it be blessed . . ." and Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman was a bishop. He took his crosier (pastoral staff), episcopal ring, book of Gospels, mitre and gloves, and proceeded through St. Peter's, blessing the congregation as he went. Returning to the altar. Bishop Spellman genuflected thrice, wished his consecrator well with a thrice- intoned "Ad multos annos" (for many years...
...building on Manhattan's Broadway where are published Liberty, Physical Culture, True Story, True Romance, True Experiences, Dream World, Ghost Stories, et al., lately went Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, wife of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was closeted for a lengthy conference with Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of the magazines. On subsequent visits she was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Curtis B. Dall...
Last week the reason for the visits was made known. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is to be a Macfadden editrix; her daughter, an assistant. They will not edit Dream World or True Experiences or Ghost Stories or Liberty (to which Governor Roosevelt contributes a weekly article). But a new magazine is scheduled to appear in September, entitled Babies: Just Babies...