Word: ectoplasm
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Jesse Jones, the Texas banker with the gimlet eye, and Miss Perkins, who has no more contact with realities than the wraith of an ectoplasm...
...Canterville Ghost (M.G.M.) is a tub of ectoplasm (Charles Laughton) whose cowardice, in a bygone century, caused his brave old father to wall him up in the family castle. The unhappy ghost was doomed to walk the night until some male Canterville should give a good account of himself in battle. But throughout Britain's embattled history, Cantervilles left only a trail of white feathers...
...egocentric gossip columnist of the London Daily Herald, Hannen Swaffer, whose story was that he and a committee of four others had once tested Mrs. Duncan's spectral powers, tied her securely with handcuffs, sashcord and thread, watched her wriggle loose in three minutes. Concluded Swaffer: "There was ectoplasm, but no one appeared. Obviously she had been released by Albert, the spirit guide...