Word: hauntings
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...could not help exploring a trifle the grey depths of his youth. From faraway Massachusetts Avenue the groaning of a homebound orange street car was subdued by the nearer steady trickle of the penetrating downpour. From the obscurity on the right rose the indistinct shape of an old haunt of the Vagabond's, now glistening white, grey, and silver in the flickering glimmer of a neighborly lamp post...
...roundabout, circular: sometimes the suspense is awful, sometimes merely interminable. Like Conrad, Faulkner makes his people coherent to an unlikely and omnireminiscent degree. Unlike Conrad, Faulkner depends on madmen for his best effects. From the vasty deep of nightmares and bogeymen he can summon up ghosts that haunt nurseries and still frighten some grownups. With fewer bogeymen than usual, a happy issue out of some of its afflictions. Light in August continues the Faulkner tradition by a murder, a lynching and a good deal of morbid fornication...
This did not appeal to Col. Marmaduke Grove. He ousted President Davila. But a week later back popped Carlos Davila as President to exile his former friend Grove to Juan Fernandez Islands, involuntary home of the original Robinson Crusoe and native haunt of the finest lobsters in South America. General Bartolome Blanche bided his time...
...Pilsen, a brewery proprietor drowned himself in a vat of beer. On the vat he had chalked a statement that he died for shame because consumption of his beer had decreased more than 125 gal. during the year. He wrote also to his former customers, threatening to haunt them for their disloyalty...
...partisan issue . . . not a controversy between the President and Congress. It is an issue of the people against delays and destructive legislation which impair the credit of the United States. It is also an issue between the people and the locust swarm of lobbyists who haunt the halls of Congress seeking selfish privileges . . . misleading members as to the real views of the people by showers of propaganda. . . . This is a serious hour which demands that the people rise with stern courage above partisanship to meet the needs of our national life...