Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even Italians know, Her Royal Highness and His Royal Highness got on each other's nerves from the first. To tease his wife and guests at the Palace, joking Prince Umberto said that it was haunted, that ghostly footsteps could be heard at night. They have been heard. Naples laughed last week with her popular practical joker. His Royal Highness had been making "ghost footsteps" by letting loose in the Palace at night a cat with walnut shells tied to its feet...
...Quebec, an English-speaking vagrant identified himself in the police station as the Holy Ghost. He said he had never been born, hence had no relatives, no race, no nationality. Police noted that all labels had been cut from his clothing. He explained that this was to make it easier to identify him as the Holy Ghost...
...empire (TIME, March 21 et seq.) was so fresh in the minds of the "Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops and other Ordinaries'' to whom His Holiness addressed himself, that few doubted that Suicide Kreuger* was in the Pope's mind when he wrote: "If what the Holy Ghost affirms through the mouth of St. Paul is ever true, much more is it true at present: 'The desire of money is the root of all evils.' ... Is it not . . . greed . . . that has brought the world to a pass we all see and deplore? From greed arises . . . narrow...
...Wodehouse collaborated on some of these early shows. For years he and Kern did ghost-work in London for Producer Charles Frohman. Kern got $15 a week, Wodehouse $12. Sally, Sonny, Stepping Stones, Show Boat, Sweet Adeline. . . . Kern had a superstition that shows whose name started with the letter S went better. At least they earned him enough to keep a house boat off Palm Beach, to indulge his penchant for collecting (and reading) rare manuscripts and first editions, so many valuable ones that at auction three years ago they brought...
...officials firmly insist that a pause between all programs, with no sound except the muffled tread of the Ghost in Galoshes, rests the listener's ears and increases his enjoyment both of what he has heard and of what he is going to hear. Typical B. B. C. service...