Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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French cheers were less solid than British, French dissent more furious and determined. Snarled Communist Boss Maurice Thorez: "Hypocritical phrases and lies . . . Today there rises the ghost of the new war . . We are now chained to the war chariot of the American billionaires." L'Humanité shrilled: "The war pact is signed...
...whole situation is saved by the happy advent of a Heinkel bomber, which blows up the house, kills the old man, lays Lark's ghost, and throws the two current lovers violently together. This leaves everybody happy but the customers...
Garrick was thought especially successful as Hamlet; his start of terror at seeing the ghost was considered one of the 18th Century stage's great moments. Only the more critical Johnson refused to 'be impressed. Asked Boswell once: "Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does if you saw a ghost?" "I hope not," Johnson replied. "If I did, I should frighten the ghost...
...Republicans rejected it, since it made no provision for the withdrawal of troops nor for favorable settlement of the two-year argument over recognition. But it is not too much to expect that the Dutch will concede even more in the near future. The Republic is clearly not the "ghost" they thought it to be, but expensively alive. Nations vitally concerned in Asia, particularly England and the U.S., will undoubtedly apply even more severe pressure on the Netherlands to save the situation in Indonesia while their is still time...
Trio No. 4 in D Major, Op. 70 (Adolf Busch, violin; Hermann Busch, cello; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Columbia, 6 sides). This trio ("The Ghost") is of lesser nobility- except for its fine misterioso slow movement -than his Trio No. 6, Op. 97 ("The Archduke"), but here it is splendidly performed. Recording: excellent...