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Analyzed Spookery. A surprising number of the ghosts vetted by the Gazetteer are anything but evil: there are legions of priests chanting liturgies, for instance, and distraught gentlewomen who specialize in vanishing into walls. Yet there is enough sheer horror to send chills through the stoutest cynic. One example is a thoroughly detailed struggle with a "malevolent thing"-endured in the early '20s by Author Beverley Nichols and his friend Lord St. Audries in a dilapidated house in Torquay, Devon. Underwood also deals at length with the carefully analyzed spookery at Borley Rectory, Essex. Before the house was destroyed...
...There are many situations in nursing and medicine to be "distraught" about. Abortion is not one of them...
Many conversions seem to be like Pike's: slow, but finally confident turnarounds rather than lightning-bolt illuminations. Yet some do come suddenly. Marsha Daigle, Catholic and a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, was deeply distraught at the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. One day she opened a Bible and suddenly "knew Christ was my personal Saviour. It was the last thing I expected...
...term as president she was trying to convince several wealthy alumnae to contribute large sums to their alma mater when she received a phone call from her housekeeper. The bees from her son's apiary had somehow escaped and were flying around the house and the housekeeper was distraught. Bunting, thinking of first things first, said, "Just tell them to be good and I'll be home as soon as I can," and returned to the alumnae...
Taught to venerate life, to sympathize with patients and to respect doctors, they became increasingly distraught about the aborted fetuses and angry both at patients for having abortions and at doctors for performing them...