Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the shrinking Nazi realm writhed columns of civilian refugees, hungry, pan icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...
Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...
Robert Emmet Sherwood, moose-tall (6 ft. 7 in.) playwright (Idiot's Delight, etc.), more recently a Government employe (OWI and ghost writing for Franklin Roosevelt), returned from a seven-weeks look at the Pacific war for the Navy to explain why he is going back to playwriting : "After five years or more in public service, I'd like to start making a little money...
...Ghost on the Roof" (TIME, March 5) was pointless because no responsible section of U.S. opinion favors sanctions against Russia, and short of drastic sanctions we are unlikely to modify Soviet policy...
...State Chamber of Commerce and the State Bar Association. They and other opponents wondered how it was possible to legislate against the human feelings that bring discrimination about. Some employers went so far as to prophesy that New York's industries would move out and leave it a ghost state...