Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nothing But Literature." "Willie" Yeats was born in the ghost-rich region of Sligo in 1865, of Anglo-Irish Protestants, in the most Catholic of nations, a minority man from the start. He was a wretched schoolchild, slow to read, timorous, bullied. But he learned from his grandparents the grand patriarchal images which never left him, and from poor relations and kitchen servants the supernatural and prehistoric lore which was both to illumine and befuddle his poetry; and he learned from his magnificent father the lesson which an artist must learn: "Self-interest and self-preservation are the death...
...dabble in occultism. Barrel-like old Madame Blavatsky warned him against removing, with his beard, the occult forces which were making a hangar of it. He joined the cabalistic Order of the Golden Dawn and played four-handed chess with Head Cabalist MacGregor Mathers, Mrs. Mathers and a ghost. It was sheer flapdoodle, but the images gave new energy to his verse. And in time this led to A Vision, one of the most astonishing books of the 20th Century, a sort of Irish-Chaldean Mein Kampf of the undermind...
...Ghost Again. The ghost of Prohibition leered out from behind the pillars. Fumed Representative Edward H. Rees, dry-throated Kansan: "While we are asking people to cut down the use of fuel and lighting in their homes, schools and churches, drinking places in Washington and other cities are well heated and well lighted until early morning...
Harvard triumphed in the 300-yard medley without a ghost of a battle and George Christman edged teammate Dave Barnes in the 220-yard free-style race a moment later. Then Gossner made his first appearance of the evening...
...ghost walked last week along the northern frontier of the U.S. In Canada, which more than once in World War II has been a proving ground for measures later introduced by Washington.* Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King took steps to cut down drinking. He announced sharp reductions in the alcoholic content of beer and liquors-beer by 10%, wine by 20%, spirits by 30%. He also forbade all advertising of beer and liquors after a six weeks' adjustment period, asked for shorter selling hours in liquor stores...