Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amazons. Broadcasting from Washington, Mme. Constantine Oumansky, wife of the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., flatly denied that women were fighting in the Red Army. This was no propaganda ghost-laying. All women who are attached to the Red Army are technicians, radio operators, cooks, messengers, engineers, drivers-and are no more formidable than Britain's ATS, WAAFS and WRENS, who do exactly the same jobs, and who also wear uniforms. There are no female combat privates in the Red Army, Nazi statements to the contrary. A few young women have been admitted as sharpshooters into OSOAVIAKHIM, Russia...
Hold That Ghost (Universal) is about that haunted house Universal has been making and remaking these many years. It is not much of a house, but Abbott & Costello are in it and that makes it funny. They inherit it from a murdered gangster, refuse to be frightened out of it by the ectoplasmic machinations of their donor's mob, hold on until they hit the jackpot: the dead gangster's fortune cached in a moosehead. This feeble chronicle is considerably enhanced by such sure-fire episodes as greaseball Lou Costello climbing in bed with a ghost...
...glass eyes of the slightly moth-eaten stuffed bear on the staircase of London's St. James's Club should have bugged out last week. The ghost of suavely arrogant, egg-domed ex-Member George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and British Foreign Secretary of the 1920s, must have shivered in its shroud. Founded in 1757, St. James's is famed for its claret, its caricatures by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the exclusiveness of its membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last...
...Senators rumbled. The President wrote an admonishing letter. The press said: You can't do that. Someone suggested that the Department move to the 550-acre grounds of the Soldiers' Home in north Washington. It began to look as though the War Department had raised a potent ghost...
...months ago a remarkable new character appeared on the stage. Blond, blue-eyed, young (32) Dr. Werner Karl Gabler is a Zurich-born Swiss who is also a New Dealer. He has been in the U.S. about five years, taken out his first papers, once served as ghost writer to the late philanthropic Edward A. Filene, became well known in Washington as economist-lobbyist for the liberal American Retail Federation. Suddenly, at the suggestion of the Swiss Minister (whose wife is Henry Wallace's sister), Gabler was offered a new retainer: the I. G. Chemie. His assignment: to negotiate...