Word: specter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Specter of the Rose (Republic) is what happened when Republic handed Writer-Director-Producer Ben Hecht the price of a horse opera ($200,000) and left him strictly alone to create-if he could-a work of art. The picture rates solid A for effort, something between A and low D for quality. Parts of it will delight a limited audience...
...Specter. Could the U.S. do more than it was doing? Back to Washington came Herbert Hoover, after a 35,000-mile tour through 25 food-short countries. After reporting to the President, he broadcast to the nation what he had seen: "The grimmest specter of famine in all the history of the world. . . . Hunger hangs over the homes of 800,000,000 people . . . over one-third of the people of the earth...
...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...
...Conservatives' Central Council he made the issue splendidly plain. Socialism now was not a radical specter with which to frighten commonsensical Britons at election time; it must be presented now as a bureaucratic barrier between Britons and the better life they wanted...
Supporters of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla raised the specter of U.S. intervention in the Mexican presidential campaign. In Mexico City, where Padilla's new Democratic party met last week to nominate him for the Presidency, Padillistas were saying...