Word: hauntedness
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Check and Double Check (RKO). Knowing that the cinema audience is to a large extent the radio audience of the U. S., the producers of any effort whose cast included Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and Andy (Charles J. Correll) could be certain of attention at the box office. But material...
Matt was a printer by trade, a preacher by nature, a puritan by training. While he read the Bible, went to prayer meeting, wrote tracts, shut his eyes to facts, the family printing shop drifted toward the rocks. It was saved only by the dogged efforts of his eldest son...
That first winter was a hard one: no income and no job. But he haunted the public library, and stood in the gallery to hear Edwin Booth play Shakespeare. "Outwardly seedy, hungry, pale and lonely, I inhabited palaces and spoke with kings." When his money was just about gone he...
From London, John Masefield, British poet laureate, spoke by radio to the U. S., recited his poem "Sea Fever." Prelude to his speech: "I speak in a place haunted by ... the memories of poets. . . . However, we are not conscious of those ghosts at the present time. We are only conscious...
The announcement that a board had been appointed to investigate the entire Harvard employment situation sounds the knell of a stalking ghost of scandal that has haunted the respectable corridors of Lehman Hall for nearly an entire semester. Such an announcement made sooner might have avoided much that was unpleasant...