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...listed the table of organization of the new, bigger gang: "Sec. of War, Chief of War Intel., Chief of Armament, Chief of Territory, Spokesman and Comm. of Tactical Opr." It was signed with such gang names as Mousie, Muscles, Rickets, Hypo, Dippy, Slick, Shamus, Big Nick, and Luke the Spook...
...word for "spook" used to be "Snarly-Ghost," and naturally the person who told us kids spooky stories was a "Snarly-Ghoster." I believe that the word "snollygoster" is a degeneration of this expression...
When it comes to spook literature, the English are still the best in the business, and this collection of short stories by Englishman John Collier is added proof of it. Unlike his fellow Englishman and spook specialist, Algernon Blackwood (TIME, Feb. 12), Collier does not deal in pure supernatural terror. His recipe calls for a good measure of spoof with the spooks, a grain or two of satiric strychnine and a dash of essence of Charles Addams...
...world, said Herbert Hoover to 1,800 U.S. editors and publishers in Manhattan, had drunk too deeply of the "mixed drinks" of three ghosts: "the shade of Karl Marx with his socialism, the shade of Mussolini with his dictated economy, the spook of Lord John Maynard Keynes with his . . . perpetual endowment for bureaucrats. And we have contributed an American ideology of giveaway programs. It might be called the New Generosity. It is not yet a ghost...
...seen as well as heard). And then there are films, the wilted coleslaw on television's bill of fare. The ancient cabbages that are rolled across the telescreen every night are Hollywood's curse on the upstart industry. Televiewers, sick of hoary Hoot Gibson oaters and antique spook comedies, wonder when, if ever, they will see fresh, first-class Hollywood films...