Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chose a state raised on LaFollette progressivism - but also on LaFollette isolationism. He went into battle against enemies who were not there: Dewey, Stassen, MacArthur-men who by choice or necessity were "ghost candidates." It was uphill work...
...half a century the towering ghost of Edgar Degas, famed 19th-Century French painter of ballerinas, has kept serious artists away from the subject of ballet dancers. But gifted Gladys Rockmore Davis, No. 1 U.S. woman painter of women, is not afraid of ghosts. Last week a display of her work appeared in LIFE. This week, in Manhattan's Midtown Galleries, Painter Davis exhibited Ballet Backstage, 20 small, dramatically colored canvases conceived in the drafty wings and over-perfumed dressing rooms of the Metropolitan Opera House, during performances of the Ballet Theater...
...Ghost Story. Radio Tokyo announced that the population of Medan, Sumatra, had dropped 23,000 in the last year, noted that 8,000 had been sent overseas, guessed that the rest "just disappeared, like a ghost population...
...locale is an old Scottish castle, haunted by one of the central figures of the play, and the town pub, haunt of most of the other characters. The lead, a ghost, in order to enter heaven must convert the reprobate and attempts to do so although considerably distracted by his love for the town idiot, Silly, who likes her kisses cold and ghastly. She eventually changes her affections to the young laird, descendant of the ghost, leaving the ghost to go to heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that...
...rears its ugly head in the person of the bar-maid who retards the reformation of the reprobate. His distraction nearly disqualifies the ghost from heaven but he is finally admitted by special dispensation from upstairs, and the play winds up happily...