Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...didn't think he'd shoot a ghost," said Spook Espinosa, pained...
...spook pursued Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire through the corridors of Chicago's refined Blackstone Hotel one day last week. It was an aged, feeble spook, supposedly laid to rest nine years ago. It had many black hands, many pairs of big, white, rolling eyes. It sought the Senator as a supplicant, begging for rest...
Theirs was the spook with which a bailiff, carrying a Municipal Court summons, haunted the Blackstone Hotel last week seeking Senator Moses. But the Senator was not to be found. Hotel employes explained he had "just checked...
...though Mr. Clive were offending his old patrons with his depressing antics, his spook dramas and extended productions of ham pieces. His old patrons have all quietly removed to the even hamier perlieus of the Henry Jewett sideshow on Huntington Avenue, but one feels that Mr. Clive, when peeping through a hole in the asbestos curtain, must miss the nice old ladies with ear trumpets, the nice old gentlemen with sidewhiskers, and the nice schoolkids who used to consider "Charley's Aunt" such a thriller. The Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places...
...without creating boredom would have been magnificent- but the book bores. When all is said and done, Haeckla and Dennis were torturing their souls about nothing-and only a great novelist can fling the mantle of Art about a nothingness, then convince the reader that there is a live spook inside the sheet after all. The book is not "promising," and the authoress need not be "watched," but her courage, persistence, and a certain as yet wavering flair for the mot juste make this a far from mediocre "first." First-Novelist Chilton is daughter of onetime U. S. Senator...