Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House Inner Circle: Harry Hopkins, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter et al. Last week they were privately blaming the ideas in the tax veto message on Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul, the words on Judge Rosenman. The facts: the message was no hastily okayed product of a Presidential ghost, no result of a sudden fit of Presidential temper. Mr. Roosevelt had been poring over the document for more than a week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson had strongly favored the veto. But many a White House adviser had argued even...
...Gide: "I was persuaded that each human being . . . had a role to play on this earth, his only, that resembled none other; so that any attempt to surrender oneself to a common rule seemed to my eyes as treason ... to be likened to that great sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no forgiveness...
...route to Murmansk, probably. Everybody else was the same way, and soon it would be a destroyer and godknowswhere for the Vag. They had wept when they left, but Vag was happy. With the index finger gone, the other four were meaningless. Soon he would escape the ghost, and would not have to see the teddy-bear in the window of the yellow frame building. That teddy bear would be Harvard, if only he had gold markings. Vag didn't mind leaving...
...Uninvited (Paramount) is a ghost picture as creepy as a rattlesnake ranch. The ectospasms begin shyly while London Composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister (Ruth Hussey) are sitting in a vacant house on the Devonshire coast, wondering whether to buy it. While they talk, some roses they have brought along shrivel up quick-&-quietly as closing fans...
...squirrel across the drumhead floors of the vacant house suddenly gives vacancy a cold portentousness. The scraping of a wine glass against a table, during the seance, is more scary than the seance itself. The unexpected smashing of a window while you are watching a rather good Paramount ghost rasps the nerves like a splintered glass. The Uninvited is about the best case of the shakes anybody can buy during the liquor shortage...