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Editor White's picture of the Democratic convention if Roosevelt declines the nomination: "The greatest show that the party has put on since Madison Square Garden. A thousand men, suddenly free, with their shackles shaken off overnight, are going to put on such a ghost dance as will look like a custard-pie supper in a madhouse...
...anything for a laugh-gore another actor, bolt clean out of character. Hope began, fumed Hornblow, by making audiences grin, ended by making them grit their teeth. The Cat and the Canary clicked: since then Hope has whizzed through many another comedy thriller (The Ghost Breakers, My Favorite Blonde, They Got Me Covered), strutted down the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco...
...William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea...
...appearance alone, Hastings would make an excellent ghost hall, and it is quite possible that its 55 years of usefulness will be brought to an end by the world conflagration that has practically put an end to the law school which it has so diligently served since...
...Gala Ghost. Most luminous ghost will be the Newport scene itself. Since 1881, when the brand-new Casino held the first U.S. national championships, Newport has been queen of the circuit. The first tournament consisted largely of local swells spooning English balls gently over the net for a hundred-odd spectators, be-boatered or be-parasolled. But by 1890 the Casino Governors had transplanted an old Barnum & Bailey grandstand, painted vermilion, to handle the growing crowds. The 1907 season saw the inauguration of a Tennis Ball, to which all players were invited on the generous assumption (long since...