Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victoria Woodhull, a handsome young advocate of free love and magnetic healing, added considerable spice to the suffrage cause. With her beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights...
...clergy. In the past, many clergymen did not bother to ask permission of their bishops. Said one: "I see no point in it. The Bishop would have to go on evidence I gave him anyway." Vicar White, called in by Leek, has not yet decided whether to face the ghost or consult his bishop...
...church in matters of this kind-you could call it bell, book and candle-though the most important contribution would be prayer. I may be able to help them." Until he does, the Leeks may become the only family in Christendom who cannot get enough of TV westerns. Their ghost subsides while noisy shoot...
...ghostwritten autobiographies and all collections of ghostwritten speeches. The ghost may be an ectoplasmic Boswell, but his ghosthood robs him of the independence necessary to prove...
...agents. The firm invents most of its subjects, then cuts its risk with businesslike efficiency: it sends out form letters asking prospective customers if they would like to inspect a new book for a 30-day, money-back trial. If enough patrons of literature bite. Giniger commissions a ghost (often British, for lower fee and better prose) to write the book. If not, the idea is killed, polite regrets are issued to the folks...