Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ghost" siring of children by artificial human insemination (except when the husband is the donor) is of the same character. It ... turns a Christian marriage into what it is not . . . "Ghost" siring of children makes eventually for "ghost" marriages. That is why a lot of intelligent Christians are against...
...best analogy that occurs to me is that of "ghost" writing. Many a political leader who can't write good speeches . . . lets his advisers . . . write speeches for him. Then he delivers them, as if they were really his own, and the crowd applauds. That . . . is a "breach of personality," I think. It makes a man what...
Good Medium. Back in 1916, he said, a spiritualist had put him in touch with the ghost of James R. Keene, the famed Wall Street plunger. Keene had tipped him off that the "insiders" rigged the market every day, using a code that in recent years had appeared in the Bringing Up Father comic strip. Said Goldsmith: "It took me an awfully long time to break the code, but once I did, it was simple to predict the market with 90 to 95% accuracy...
...marry a ghost and bear him a kitten...
...governor of Louisiana, swaggering, shifty-eyed Earl Kemp Long has hardly been able to spit, scratch or take off his shoes without rousing a disconcerting ghost. During his 3½ months in office the legend of his brother Huey has dominated and overshadowed him almost as thoroughly as the live Kingfish did during the noisy years of the Great Louisiana Hayride...