Word: hauntings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English, but known to the world of readers as "Treasure Island" This little isle made famous by the magic of Robert Lonis Stevenson's pen is a barren but romantic spot with a rocky cliff towering 180 feet in the air. This entire coast was once the haunt of the buccaneers, and the people of the island still show traces of the freebooters...
Down come the attractive little white wooden houses with their neat green shutters Pegasus soars to a new stable, Tragic Muses drag from their familiar haunt, the last of the Arthurian Mohicans packs his kit--the Widow is moving to the Gold Coast...
...charges. Rosinante played his part well. It was Dapple the Donkey's turn. With a very old and broken Don Quichotte on his back, led by the faithful Sancho, he started across the stage. Slowly and deliberately he moved until he reached the centre, aspiration of every debutant, haunt of prima donnas and tenors. It suited him, that particular spot. He stopped. Tenderly de Luca coaxed him. Bravely, as bravely as his padded fat form would let him, he pulled and coaxed and pulled, with no influence at all on the Dapple of the evening, who stood as fixed...
...born at Twickenham, England, haunt of Poet Alexander Pope. For decades he squandered huge sums extracted from various titled persons or realized from the sale of his estates. He attempted to enlist in the French army during the War but was refused. Under French law "the privilege of defending the Republic is denied to the sons of families that have reigned over France...
...great painter he is capable of liking them more passionately and more concretely than your common fellow. It is not merely their savor that appeals to him; it is their mass and rhythm. The concentric ovals of their yolks and whites, the fecund chromes bewitched to a dark gold, haunt his dreams with the memory of a beauty marvelous and fugitive. To satisfy the demands of that memory, he painted them, the fried eggs of his dream, in a form as compact as a concerto?a form that leaves upon the mind of the beholder a sensation as definite...