Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as Democracy is in danger, and as long as there is a ghost of a chance to get it out of danger, there is a job to do," declared Mumford before the gathering of three hundred. He went on to say that even if the Spanish government had capitulated last night Congress ought to raise the Embargo on Spain to "ease its conscience...
When a script is finished by the ghost writers it goes to an adjunct of the Hummert mill known as Air Features, Inc. for production. No Hummert ghost may even stick his nose inside Air Features' production studios...
...Ghost Town. Jefferson is saturated with the memory of old feuds and old sins. In eight of his books Faulkner has traced its history through the stories of its once-great families whose descendants still hold on, whose legends still remain. Violent, formless, the books are packed with scenes of murder, suicide, insanity, horror, give as unsparing a picture of social decay as any U. S. novelist has drawn...
...University vs. tutoring schools is a long, fifteen-round bout in which, for the past few years, no very decisive blows have been struck. Outside the University, Manter Hall School last year landed a light left when they sued Time Magazine for libel for saying they did ghost-writing and were awarded all of six cents. The blow was only important in so far as it established the legal position of the school in relation to the University. Yesterday, however, the University connected with a sharp right when a bureau offering a review in criminal law called off the tutoring...
...Robert Hooke's ghost had been in Richmond last week it would have heard something very gratifying. Edwin Grant Conklin, Princeton's famed biologist, declared that it was a mistake to attribute the origin of the biological cell theory, whose centenary is being observed in scientific circles, to two Germans, Schleiden and Swann. "Their theory," said Dr. Conklin, "was a special and in important respects an erroneous one. There is no present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke...