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...wait for a kick to start comeing and then lay down on a well-greased linoleum rug and begin playing cross-eyed parchesi with the man he graduated from high school. But this time this Buell guy catched the kick and run back with it towards the opponents' ghoul and the old blue Eli declared it was foul tactics but the referee said willy nilly and what could anybody do about it? I am asking everybody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS-EYED PARCHESI ON LINOLEUM RUGS NO GAME FOR AN OLD MAN | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

...should get it a day off and come to see the footballers tell it to Mr. Haughtonstein to say to the Freshmen not to get fresh with Izzy Kaplan because some day Izzy will knock them for a ghoul because Izzy is a hard egg when he is mad and I hope you feel the same...

Author: By Izzy Kaplan., | Title: IZZY KAPLAN PICKS "THE HARVARD BOYS" AS WINNERS | 11/22/1919 | See Source »

...longer a mere inanimate building. It becomes weirdly endowed with an awful personality. It is an explorer, it is an expounder, it is a preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold at heart, and-come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

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