Word: hauntings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...21st Street house of its furnishings. It is one of Mr. Phillips' theories that pictures should be seen in incidental surroundings, not in the vaultlike rooms of great museums. His collection is open to all visitors, but Mr. Phillips does not want it to be a rubberneckers' haunt. Unlike most collectors, he gives no extemporaneous lectures to casual visitors but will talk privately to the interested...
Curious friends have often been anxious to know whether the Vagabond goes into hibernation during the months that intervene before a second term opens or whether he remains about the college to haunt the scones of his former glory. To such unimaginative souls he can quote Shakespeare that "There are more things in Heaven and earth Horation, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" and the Vagabond would have little right to his claims of superior knowledge if he had not managed to discover enough of the more pleasant kind to keep him occupied during the leisure period...
...inkstand, bookends, paperweights His complexion remains that of a hard indoor worker. It has been organization and politics with him all summer, with only a few games of golf mixed in even on Sundays. When he does get off he goes to the Glen View Club, oldtime haunt of the late Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Harding campaign...
...home in safe sunny England." Terrified, he ran off with Menella, fair-haired handmaiden in "rose linen sprigged with small corn flowers and carnations." They swore to be true "till death us do part." Hariot's death, by her own jealous hand, did part them, and haunt them, till Jamie rode to his own frenzied death, and thus joined the siren he had jilted...
...Scarface Al") Capone in the matter of the risk and privations a big promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally popular, often received bottles of whiskey soon after they...