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Word: spooked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SPOOK HOUSE-Satisfying and conventional melodrama (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...Spook House. For the multitude who enjoy detective stories and mystery plays in which ghastly white arms slide out of hidden panels, murdered bodies mysteriously disappear to the embarrassment of the burly and thwarted constabulary, Spook House provides staple entertainment. Its scene is laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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