Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harness oil, changed to machine lubricants; famed Brewster Body Co. made carriages; the Studebakers, wagons. By their adaptability, these companies survived. Because of reluctance to change, J. B. Sickles Co., oldest business concern in St. Louis, last week prepared to close its books and pass on to corporate ghost-land...
...manual, 112 pages long, contained more or less routine articles on the proper way to handle various clubs, how to correct common faults, "Tips for the Nervous Golfer," plentiful pictures (including Golfer Jones when young), a large volume of advertising. Investigation revealed that Golfer Jones had not employed a ghost, that he had originally sold the articles to Bell Features Syndicate, having patiently scrawled out his copy over weekends, to meet the regulation of the U. S. Golf Association which forbids a player to sell his name as the author of a piece he has not himself written. Sportwriter Grantland...
...action is easy to follow, the audience will be given translations prepared by two Club members. Out of the dust of many years, the illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
...method of curbing the Supreme Court if it did not change its ways on economic questions. The Senate was shocked at his passionate use of the word "revolution." Senator Norris predicted that the Hughes appointment would become an issue in the next campaign, called it "Banquo's ghost come back to plague" the G. O. P. Senator Brookhart babbled of more Constitutional Amendments to restrict the Supreme Court...
...which he is president, staged his production of Macbeth. Oxford's incomparably languid esthetes gathered afterward and drawled their appreciation far into the night-they praised the producer for the simplicity and emotion he had achieved, for his blending of hues, his startling evocation of Banquo's ghost. They devised precious phrases to explain his innuendos...