Word: spooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats have been "live" stuff, i.e., not transmitted from recordings. Only "canned" Roosevelt the radio audience ever got was that culled from recordings of his 1932-33 speeches by a Chicago pressagent for Senator Arthur Vandenberg's bizarre "spook" debate with him over CBS in the 1936 campaign. One day last month, however, in the White House's fireside-less Diplomatic Room from which all the fireside chatshave been broadcast, Franklin Roosevelt sat down with National Emergency Council Chairman Lowell Mellett and recorded a 15-minute interview...
Best spirit conversation followed the discovery that two pieces of broken cross exactly fitted. "Fuller," said Garland, "you are the wonder of the Fourth Dimension! That ought to make you laugh." Said Spook Fuller: "It does...
...letters and countless telephone calls asking for more details of this spectral dancer, whose mysterious resurrection they all said had been dramatized grippingly on WMCA's true-story Five Star Final program. To WMCA and Five Star Final, the flood of letters was more a mystery than the spook tale. The station had never broadcast the story...
Next product of Poet MacLeish's top-working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play...
...Families, was moved to violent action. So he damned the book in his daily column and roared into a microphone on his Bromo Quinine hour: "It is such a tissue of libel that the father of lies will have to move over on his throne when the spook of that author arrives. Moreover, it is the frankest kind of Communist propaganda." The General has a standing offer to allow any person attacked in his nightly talks to make a rebuttal on his radio time. Last week at the suggestion of the publisher, Vanguard Press, and with the approval...