Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emperor Meiji's classic Shinto ghost would toss about in dismay inside the quiet Meiji Shrine, if it knew what was happening at the Diet building a few miles away. Though some might say that Japanese politics there were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist...
Sally Rand, well-nigh immortal fandangler, sponsored a scholarship at the University of Illinois, handed a $1,000 check to its temporary custodian, Harold ("Red") Grange, football's famed Galloping Ghost of the early...
...little too well-fed for a ghost...
...Both Hanoi and Haiphong are ghost cities. Only 17,000 of Hanoi's 100,000 Annamites remain in the city...
...Craigie House ended. While the downstairs rooms were turned into a museum, a few married Radcliffe girls live on the second floor, with Longfellow's grandson, who writes historical books on Cambridge, as landlord. A few months ago some of the present residents hysterically reported the presence of a ghost. Whether Washington's or Longfellow's no one cared to say, but the shades of either may very well be still lurking among the elms...