Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. May Imelda Josephine Irwin, 74, Dowager Countess of Limerick, Dublin society beauty of the '80s; in ghost-ridden Hall Place, her palatial home in Bexley, England. She periodically reported encountering the armored ghost of Edward the Black Prince, found it "dreadfully distressing...
Empty Ghettos. The ghettos established by the Nazis in Poland and the Baltic States are ghost towns today, decimated by deportation and execution on the spot. "The Warsaw ghetto is empty. The streets crowded only a year ago with 500,000 Jews are silent now. . . . Last month gunfire was heard in Warsaw for several days. When it stopped, the Germans had finished their task. The last of the Jews were gone...
Taxation looks simple this year: almost all States have a whopping surplus, built up by the application of depression-born taxes on the wartime boom. Many considered cutting taxes; Illinois invested $40,000,000 in war bonds. But a ghost haunted them all: the shades of departed millions of dollars of revenue from the loss of gas and auto taxes...
Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of a first wife's ghost cooking a second wife's goose (TIME...
...really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Was it Francis Bacon? Or a couple of other fellows? Or was it, by some stretch of the imagination, after all, Shakespeare himself? This never-quite-laid ghost has haunted the battlements of English literature for 100 years. In many corners of the world, scholarly and unscholarly fanatics have spent the best part of their lives trying to prove that the son of a simple Stratford-on-Avon townsman was literature's greatest bluff...