Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only setting used in the production is a sketchy ship, the prow, stern and mast of which are quite naively carried on by the phantom sailors and slipped into place on the stage. Despite this transparency of presentation, a weirdly moving effect is achieved, even when a dead sailor puts his hand up to rock the mast in a storm...
...Little Entente, which was born to fight the phantom of the Habsburgs, has today become the magnificent instrument of France's last domination in Europe...
Romance is dead, long live Romance! "Drake, he's in his hammock"; Frobisher likewise; only the ghost of Captain Kidd is still burying treasure, only a phantom Long John Silver is still digging it up. Writers of the present day can submerge themselves in the atmosphere of other times or more primitive climes and so produce a Sea-Hawk or a Lord Jim. But among the furnaces, the black smoke, and the steel girders of modern America, "where are the snows of yesteryear...
...will "view with favor" the acceptance by Americans--as private citizens--of the invitation to join in the investigation. The government would seem to have little to say about whether private citizens, if they so desire, shall serve or not. But perhaps some moral advantage may accrue from this phantom manner of having one's cake and eating...
...above mediocrity. There is a ghost story by Somerset Maugham, for instance, in which the author describes an uncanny scene in the most matter of fact terms, no doubt believing this the certain means of investing the supernatural with reality. The story cannot help reminding the reader of "The Phantom Rickshaw", an unfortunate recollection, for Mr. Maugham has been matter of fact and nothing more...