Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany is least proud are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Though in Naziland their names are a byword and a hissing, they are revered by radicals the world over. Marx, the Holy Ghost of the Soviet Trinity, author of Capital and the Communist Manifesto, is now a familiar spook even to men-in-the-street, but few newspaper readers have ever encountered the shade of Engels. Until Gustav Mayer's German life of Engels was last week translated into English, there was no biography of him available to U. S. readers...
...Spook Transplanted...
Arraigned on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minors by keeping them out of public school, University of Islam instructors kept their mouths tight shut. From the textbooks police learned that the school's curriculum included courses in General Knowledge of the Spook Being Displayed for 6,000 Years, General Knowledge of Spook Civilization, The Duty of a Moslem. Sample lessons...
...actual knowledge of a sun of man has searched for 66,000,000,000 years or more and have not located the spook...
...Albert ("Whitey") Michelsen, cadaverous, spook-faced, 35-year-old marathoner: the Metropolitan A. A. U. 26-mile marathon in Hudson County...