Word: haunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closes the throbbing of a drum is heard in the hills, and Emperor Brutus Jones realizes that the time has come for him to flee the island. The rest of the play is made up of various stages in his flight, and the terrifying visions that haunt him in the forest. From the proud, gaudily-robed Emperor, he is broken down by his visions and the ever-throbbing drum until, a tattered, nervous wreck, he gives away his position to the natives by firing at a ghost. The story is simply that of the destruction of the Emperor's nerve...
...huge and lavish Malacanan Palace, upon which he has spent huge sums, sat little "King" Quezon last week. Sixty-two, he still goes dancing occasionally at the Santa Ana cabaret in Manila, an old haunt of his. He has lost none of his love for gaudy gaiety: his clothes are the wonder of the Islands. Frequently he dons jodhpurs for the office, an admiral's uniform for a cruise on his splendid white yacht, once the property of Oilman Edward Doheny. It is a legend in Manila that he planned to have a guard of honor for the Malacanan...
...into Norway, U. S. public opinion welled up again. Republican White, Kansas delegate to three Republican Conventions, hustled to Manhattan to try to keep an isolationist plank out of the Republican platform. On May 1, when the Allies were still struggling in Norway, he sat in his favorite Manhattan haunt-the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park-debating ways & means of converting pro-Ally sentiment into increased Allied aid. On May 6-when Chamberlain was on his way out over the Norwegian failure-White drafted a brief statement, left it with Eichelberger, returned to Emporia...
...Thorndike has small patience with medical fallacies about athletics. Item: that injuries haunt athletes in later years ("rubbish"). He does hold that for best results doctors should follow all injuries through an athlete's college career. Before games he even tapes ankles which were sprained three years before...
...explain the world had always been the ruling aspiration implicit in Yeats's writing, even in that dreamlike fairy-poetry, full of haunting music, names and symbols, which brought him popular fame. Granting the fact that many people found such poetry haunting, it remained a question why the human mind was so mysteriously hauntable. Yeats had looked for an answer, not in psychoanalysis, but in psychological religions - Rosicrucianism, Cabalism, Swedenborg, Boehme, Blake- and in the memorabilia of men of literary and artistic genius, from Homer to Ezra Pound. Through this darkling maze Yeats resolutely followed his nose...