Word: ghosts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...announcement that a board had been appointed to investigate the entire Harvard employment situation sounds the knell of a stalking ghost of scandal that has haunted the respectable corridors of Lehman Hall for nearly an entire semester. Such an announcement made sooner might have avoided much that was unpleasant and unnecessary, but it is not for a mere mortal agency to question the motions of the spheres. The consolation that something is actually to be done effaces some of the scandal even if it does leave the blot of mismanaged press relations still in a conspicuous foreground...
...suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance...
...drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. . . . Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. . . . Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls...
Foreign Pictures. Foreign Distribution Head H. A. Bandy told the delegates that Warner Brothers had doubled their European sales last year by "ghost speakers" i. e. foreign translations of talkie dialog on discs synchronized with films acted by U. S. casts. Most popular Warner pictures abroad last year: Disraeli, Gold Diggers of Broadway...
When the white whale left, some observers thought it had headed up-coast toward New Bedford, whale-conscious Massachusetts town. Others thought it went across Narragansett Bay toward Block Island. Fanciful New Englanders said it might be the ghost of famed Moby Dick, returning to visit the region which he and Author Herman Melville put into literature. Whale-wise salts declared the creature was moping, as if it were sick...