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...wasn't all one-sided, however, for the Crimson goals, though in the main not the result of obviously set-up plays, were not flukes by any means. Bram Arnold and John Forte both beat the Dartmouth net-minders twice with nice shots, and Bill Ayres accounted for the other...
...went to England, got a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, and was sent to Egypt. A bad crash left him with a troublesome leg, which has cost him a total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl (niece of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula), brought her to the U. S. After eight unsuccessful months trying to sell Mack trucks, Farson and his bride went off to live in a shack on Vancouver Island, stayed there two years. Then he went back to Mack Truck Co., did so well...
...were entirely finished. His sappers, tunneling under the Paraguayan positions, had sewn them thick with dynamite. To England, France, Italy, Spain and Mexico the League dispatched requests that each appoint an arbiter, announced that the arbitral board would be constituted within ten days. General Kundt was quicker than that. Bram! went his mines. The earth heaved. Paraguayan soldiers were lofted into the air like so many clods...
Good horror stories are rarer than almost any other kind of fiction. When the blurb-writer for The Werewolf of Paris wanted a horror-classic to compare it with, he hit on Bram Stoker's famed Dracula (1899). still the seldom-disputed favorite in its field. Author Endore's discursive narrative does not keep up to Dracula's plane but it has its moments...
Since the Witch of Endor, rare are the artists who have raised a proper ghost. Bram Stoker raised one (Dracula]; Algernon Blackwood one (The Wendigo); Walter de la Mare, a few (The Return, On the Edge, TIME, Feb. 23): M. R. James several. Ghost-story addicts will welcome this collection of his four spooky books (Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, Afore Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious...