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...house from, candleflames wither, an odor of mimosa pervades the room, the young girl rushes out and is barely prevented from diving off a cliff. She cannot explain why. The answer, as Stella and the Fitzgeralds discover when they stage a seance, is that they are caught in the spectral cross fire of a pair of feuding nether worldlings. By the time the ghosts are laid, the scare-voltage is so high that the spooks seem as close to a nervous collapse as their victims...
Twentysix, redheaded, pretty, weighing 90 lbs., she obviously could not ship before the mast. Besides, she wanted to sail as captain. She plucked $1,100 from the bank and headed for Baltimore. There the schooner Fannie Insley, dirty, spectral, gaunt, was tied to a city wharf. The Fannie Insley took her eye. She planked down $800 for her ("her bottom was sound"), spent the rest of her fortune fitting her out, by virtue of her ownership became Captain Grant, hired a couple of hands, cast off into the business of hauling freight up & down Chesapeake...
Wild plum was in spectral blossom, dogwood lurked in the woods, the purple-flowered Judas trees ranged the red-clay roads, already deep with dust. But for two days snub-faced Dr. Ross Mclntire, White House physician, kept the boss indoors, made him rest in the lounge chair by the fireplace in the pine-paneled living room. Midweek came before Dr. Mclntire permitted the President to disport his 6 ft. 2 in. in the buoyant, tepid waters of the glass-roofed pool. Canada's plumpish Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King lay in swimming trunks on a cot while...
...Unhappy Bull" Sirs: Congratulations on your excellent picture of the fighting in Finland in your issue of Jan. 8. But I cannot read of this war in the wilderness, of battles fought by spectral shapes in a winter of perpetual night, without thinking that in our own day a new, haunted, legend-breeding region is being created-something that for our own time is the Dreadful Forest, as the Black Forest was a region of terror in the middle ages, or as the Swamp of the Great Dismal was in the days of the runaway slaves. This war of people...
...four hours during a Channel blizzard, was too much for almost everybody. One of the finest, in his own estimation, was The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838. This sunset picture of a black, belching little tug beside the spectral jewel of the old ship-of-the-line made Thackeray lyrical was never sold in Turner's lifetime...