Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were also some war casualties: New England's famed Berkshire Festival abandoned because of gas rationing, rubber shortage); summer opera at Colorado's ghost town, Central City (abandoned Because of tire and bus shortages); the Portland (Ore.) Midsummer Night concerts (Army regulations restrict the size of audiences...
...blackened with soot, and padlocked him in a box which was opened only when he was fed. Ibrahim escaped, only to be hunted with hounds and imprisoned again in a smaller box. Finally three concubines told the police about Ibrahim. The found him in his box, "looking like a ghost, pale as death, and smelling like a polecat...
...Holy Ghost Fathers, for example, 26 young priests are at their mission posts in Tanganyika Territory today and eleven more, who worked in this section earlier, are in the U.S. Many of the latter could qualify as teachers of Swahili (the language is more commonly called Kiswahili), for they learned the tongue not only through years of actual practice, but also in the Mission Seminary of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost in Norwalk, Conn. Classes in Kiswahili are conducted there by Rev. Francis J. Fitzgerald, C.S.Sp. who spent twelve years (1927-39) in Bagamoya, East Africa...
Last month Benj. Franklin was kicked off the cover of the Satevepost for the first time since old Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought it 45 years ago. If old Cyrus turned in his grave then, this week's cover must have brought his amazed ghost stalking into Independence Square. Saturday Evening started to follow Franklin toward limbo, leaving the word Post baldly staring from the cover in unfamiliar type. Neither inside nor out did the once fabulously successful weekly look like its old self...
Waugh's hero ghost is ratlike, inexorably likable Basil Seal, the flower of British adventurousness degraded to magenta.* War draws him and his fellow ghosts into one of those ornamental tourniquet-and-candy- box knots which only Waugh knows how to tie. But Waugh's dross and gloss should deceive nobody for long; he has become one of the most deadly serious moralists of his generation. Every one of his novels had its masked importance. History helps make Put Out More Flags his most important book...