Word: haunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inscription on the high facade reads: "Lose all hope who enter here." The open season for books is no more. Even should the conscientious objector escape through a back window and, disguised as a bricklayer, lose himself in the traffic of Massachusetts Avenue, the fear of the law would haunt his sleep, the imaginary hand, would forever be reaching for his shoulder...
...graduates hearing of it, hoped that the dormitory, whose future of late years has been uncertain, would, at last, be given a decent burial. But it now appears that the motives of these philanthropists were not altogether unmixed with mercenary considerations. The wraiths of Harvard's great, which supposedly haunt the unplumbed depths of Beck, and for whose memory the purchase was made, have now become a selling point for the owners. They have found, to their disappointment, that the distinguished tenantry of years past will not, alone, pay for the present taxes. And so Beck Hall is offered...
Mother of the British Labor Party and still its most potent mentor is that mighty group of British labor organizations whose Trade Union Congress met last week in storied Nottingham Town, onetime haunt of exemplary highwayman Robin Hood...
Hush! Didst hear the glad tidings? They are to remain staidly reasonable. Long ducks and huge knickers will still suit the fancy. No shades of epic athletes or even Fauntleroys will haunt the Yard. Perhaps it would be wise to bolster the resolution by a vote of appreciation in behalf of The Rest of Us for the great-mindedness which is to uphold the dignity of human sense and sensibility. Suggestions as to the means of such expression are respectfully requested. Mehitable, in The Radcliffe Daily...
...where wolves have largely ceased to be a serious menace to humans, there are few organizations devoted to their slaughter though some western states offer wolf bounties. In France, where wolves still haunt the forests, there are still "wolf lieutenants"-landowners who, in return for protecting large portions of the terrain from wolves by maintaining packs of wolfhounds, are entitled to hunt government forests for wild boar. Among noted wolf lieutenants are two women, the Dowager Duchess d'Uzes and Mme Alice Abram Terras of Lambesc-Salen, who wears a man's uniform...