Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...source of much of his own income. In 1943, Mazurkiewicz failed in his first attempt, when poison did not work on a Polish underground officer. He profited by this first distressing experience, put so much cyanide in the vodka of a black-marketeer that the fellow gave up his ghost and $1.200 with heartening dispatch. Victim No. 2, carrying 160.000 zlotys, was shot and his body dumped in a river...
...Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel to the press plate. Next morning Private Ervin's ragged ghost haunted the spot (see cut) where the Morning Star cut out the Negro and spited its front page...
...enterprising New York Journal-American tapped Italy's billowing Cinemactress Sophia (Too Bad She's Bad) Loren to guest-write a column for its vacationing Gossipist Dorothy Kilgallen. In carefully fractured English, Sophia (or a waggish ghost) ground out some profound pap. Of men and their sex drive: "[A man] is like a small boy in a restaurant. Can only eat a little bit, but wants the whole menu. He cries if somebody else eat a little too. But if nobody wishes canard sauce bigarrade, he don't wish either. Can be starving, still no canard sauce...
...they set up a refugee camp, while police reinforcements from a dozen nearby cities fought the rioters with Sten guns and fell back in confusion before the wildly swinging clubs of the mobs. Four more Africans were killed and a score hospitalized. By the third night Evaton was a ghost town peopled only by small knots of men waiting for one another with knives or clubs...
...moviegoers may be uncertain just what is going on. Director Ford indulges his Homeric appetite for violence of spirit and action. Coming on the corpse of a hated Comanche, Wayne shoots out the dead man's eyes on the debatable theological principle that the Indian's blinded ghost cannot find its way to the Happy Hunting Grounds...