Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearly and forcefully DeFoe's significance as a pamphleteer and publicity man, first in the employ of one political faction, then of the other. In the middle pages of this book., DeFoe appears as the first yellow journalist, the first crusading journalist--the two being not as the first ghost writer and moulder of public opinion. Even Bernais and Ivy Lee need not have scorned some of the coups pulled by this 18th century writer...
...Author. Men, Marriage and Me was evidently "ghosted" (in large part), but the ghost has been kept in the background by Peggy Joyce's publishers, who deny that Journalist Basil Woon...
...passed first in 1697, was amended in 1782 and today reads as follows: "Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing, or contumeliously reproaching God, His cration, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt or ridicule the Holy Word of God contained in the Holy Scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in gaol for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $300, and may also be bound to good...
...rate of decline. To bring to a merciful and speedy end that which is slowly dying of itself is often an act of kindness, and there is no exaggeration of the metaphor to point out here that no observance of a tradition is preferable to one which is the ghost of its former self...
...moved again, and this time was established at the end of the automobile road which leads from Jasper to the base of Mount Edith Cavell. At this point the characteristics of glaciers became the first interest of the students, and many hours were spent on the ice of Ghost Glacier. Ten members of the party left the Cavell camp Sunday afternoon and four and a half hours later had established a temporary camp above timber line on the west ridge of the mountain. From this point the summit of Mount Edith Cavell, 11,033 feet above sea level, was reached...