Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book, which begins to relate the stalking of Mr. Howard by a gang of gunmen at Atlantic City,, suddenly goes insanely askew. Tom? Howard has an hilarious conversation with a ghost, but the show's few genuinely good moments are supplied by a hitherto unknown young man named Hal Le Roy whose tapdancing is peerless. None of the music, none of the gags, save The Gang's All Here from being a pretty waste of money...
Even in his poetry Walter de la Mare traffics in the spooky, but in spooks of a gossamer, indefinite kind. He understands that an effective ghost is never concrete. On the Edge contains many a tale that will give you the creeps, some that will merely set you musing. Some of them...
...sight. But neither had any money, so Tony married Pen. Julie might have had Nick Barnes, a rising surgeon and solid citizen, but honeymooning Tony still kept her fancy. Finally she took a chance on Nick, but stipulated a platonic union until she had laid Tony's ghost. When Tony and Pen came back from their long honeymoon abroad Julie found she could face her former idol without batting an eye; more, that Husband Nick was the man for her. And just then, of course, it was discovered Julie was really the long-lost Barnes heiress: her virtue...
...Those of us who came back from France know now what war is. The mask has been stripped away from the War and we see how futile, how unChristian, how damnable the whole business is. The ghost of the past makes some of us feel bloodguilty in the sight of God."-Dr. Ray Freeman Jenney, Park Central Presbyterian Church, Syracuse...
...favorite question on Shakespeare examinations is ''Distinguish between horror and terror." Sanctuary is compact of both. The horrors of any ghost story pale beside the ghastly realism of this chronicle...