Word: phantomed
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...Mussolini decided immediately to ban the offending cinema, he would have done exactly what Great Britain's Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association did in 1925 to Director Carl Laemmle's Phantom of the Opera.* Shrewd, Director Laemmle let it be rumored that his film would encourage recruiting in His Majesty's armies. Accordingly, when the film arrived in Southampton from Manhattan it was greeted by an escort of territorial troops and a jubilant band which accompanied it to London. Decidedly, Director Laemmle had scored a signal advertising coup...
...kill-Menelaus was distracted. Out came his knife and Helen smiled as poets have had her smile, until, hypnotized, he dropped it. But smiling might not always save her and Aithra mixed a potion that would bring forgetfulness and safety. Menelaus drank and Helen became for him a phantom he could love, one who had never sinned against him and his countrymen. He was happy for a moment, would start at once for home but Helen had her qualms. She remembered. So did all Greeks and again she appealed to Aithra and again Aithra made magic, spirited them away...
...Phantom Lover. Whether, as written by Georg Kaiser, this might have been a flip and stinging comedy or an exciting allegory illustrated with melancholy symbols, no one could determine. It was clumsily translated and five out of six of its players staggered about the stage with moans and agonies, glaring, and thumping the furniture with their heavy hands. A feeble-minded virgin, seeing a young lieutenant looking at the rings in a jeweler's window, became enamored. When she sat next him in church, she regarded this as a marriage ceremony. When he occupied an adjoining chair...
...year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor so desired. Whereupon several fearless scientists isolated the boy in a glass cage to learn the secrets of this dread phantom. The poltergeist was evidently deeply impressed with such audacity and has since shown no signs of his presence...
...course, this is just his personal opinion, and doesn't appear in the stories he writes. Hot tips on "dark-haired Woburn boys" and "phantom half backs" are his specialty, but while his typewriter is busy clicking off these potent concoctions. Ted is not very much fooled, and casual observers may note a bulge in his left cheek as he builds a second string tackle and third string guard with a "likely-looking monkey wrench in Yale's classy juggernaut...