Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time to writing. Other books: Dewer Rides, The Jealous Ghost, The English Captain, The Garden...
...sick, Black Elk, to learn from the Wasichus some secret that might help his people, joined Buffalo Bill's Indians, went to New York, London and parts of Europe. He discovered no secret, returned to find the tribes aroused by the Messianic teachings of Wovoka, dancing the ghost dance that meant trouble for Wasichus. The butchering of warriors, women and children at Wounded
...Republican League foes gave themselves up to quiet ironic chuckling at the ghost-laying of Democrats Baker and Roosevelt. "The Reno-like celerity with which Democratic leaders are seeking to divorce themselves from the League of Nations," observed New Hampshire's tart Senator Moses, "is interesting and amusing. . . . Deathbed conversions, however, smack of the theatrical." To this Idaho's Senator Borah piously added: "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand...
...White House. But as a practical issue the League is so moribund that few persons bothered to associate Mr. Baker with it until he doggedly championed U. S. entry last month. Well aware of the damage it can do parties and politicians he hastened to lay its ghost...
...haven't the ghost of an idea what it means," snorted Liberal Lloyd George. "I should have thought it was the business of those brought in to govern, to govern...