Word: hauntings
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...college and become genuinely attached to what its defamers call the higher life. He is, if you will, living beyond his intellectual income. He is a dilettante, an amateur, what he once ruefully called himself- a "Nearly." He knows good prose when he sees it; memorable bits of it haunt him. ... But he has neither the flair nor the facility of a writer. He loves poetry without being in the least a poet. He 'gets' philosophy without being technically expert or agile or spiritually profound. He admires scholarship truly and yet has not the patience nor the exactness...
...dormie two to a win at the 20th. There are Mrs. Hurd and Mrs. Barlow of Philadelphia, Louise Fordyce of Ohio, and Miriam Burns of Kansas, but none of these looms really large. Barring a vagrant, unpredictable typhoon, the only disturbance charted is the dark little terror whose native haunt is Providence-Glenna. She is indeed a thundercloud, always has been, particularly for Edith. The two have met once this year - in the finals of the Buffalo invitation matches. Glenna...
...Book. Haunted Houses falls into three main divisions: death haunts; personal haunts; house haunts. Scientifically, each haunt is inexplicable unless the psychic influence of mediums, conscious or unconscious of their power, is taken into undefined account. The death haunts are all connected with mysterious happenings-the fall of a picture, the rumblings of a clock or the sudden functioning of a rusty and unused clock. In each instance, at the precise time of the mystery, a death occurs. The explanation is purely psychic; no cosmic clues can be discovered...
...main dining room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of an evening you may find him. There he is−tall, sober, the perfect bachelor, who has attained years of discretion. Like a gracious prince−for he is a man of distinction−he frequents this semi-public haunt, where ever and again appear the potentates with whom he may speak on terms of equality...
Ramon loved the girl whom his brother Pedro had successfully wooed, and one day while the lilting strains of the Habanera sounded, Ramon stabbed Pedro. But Pedro before he died swore that he would come back to haunt his brother, would come back while the Habanera sounded. He did. The ghost, strumming a guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young...