Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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COLLECTED GHOST STORIES-M. R. James-Longmans...
...Government of the Dole-drawers, by the Dole-drawers and for the Dole-drawers." Above these Churchillisms the Daily Mail printed a cartoon showing the benches of the House of Commons prophetically occupied by vacant-eyed bums (Dole-drawers). Towering above them but ignored, loomed the futile ghost of Abraham Lincoln...
...expressed a desire to visit Eton, Dr. Alington said: "Pickford? Fairbanks? Who are they?" Dr. Alington says that by his bedside is a volume of the mystery stories of Valentine Williams, a writer much admired in Britain. Also he reads, as most knowing Britishers do, the ghost stories of his colleague Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James, Provost of Eton. The administrative and business affairs of Eton are in the hands of Ghost Story Writer James, who is furthermore a world-famed authority on early British stained glass and ancient manuscripts. Eton is the most individual and matured of British schools...
...inevitable happens. The tale suddenly skips to 1750; Koor's squat is now the drowsy village of Marden Fee, its people outwardly a placid yokelry. But in many of them still runs the blood of Koor. When Gipsy Noke kills the highwayman he instinctively tries to placate the ghost as his ancestors did. And nothing could be more prehistoric than the love-making of Tom Shellett and his half-sister Charity. The Squire marries, gaffers die, murder is done and bastards begotten, but every evening the village worthies gather at the inn to have their tankards and their talk...
...brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist Symons submitted another this year. It was called "My Lord I Meet in Every London Lane and Street." It included the figures of Jesus, St. Peter, St. John, the Holy Ghost, a perspective view of Tottenham Court Road, a steam roller, a baby Austin, a motorcycle, and about 100 assorted Londoners. Editors did not doubt that this overcrowded, execrable composition would be another Picture of the Year, gave it full page reproduction in both Britain and the U. S. Without warning...