Word: spooks
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...without creating boredom would have been magnificent- but the book bores. When all is said and done, Haeckla and Dennis were torturing their souls about nothing-and only a great novelist can fling the mantle of Art about a nothingness, then convince the reader that there is a live spook inside the sheet after all. The book is not "promising," and the authoress need not be "watched," but her courage, persistence, and a certain as yet wavering flair for the mot juste make this a far from mediocre "first." First-Novelist Chilton is daughter of onetime U. S. Senator...
...revolutions per minute for two months. Even though no one has referred to it by name yet, the moth-eaten specter of Harvard indifference may have begun again to walk abroad and clank its chain. It is not the first time that even a suspicion that the worthy spook is about again has set people by the cars...
...Labor cartoons ridicule those of the Conservatives and Liberals, mock them for calling up a fantastic Bolshevik spook. The captions: "The weather will be dreadful under Communism" ; "The Communists will stab poor grandpa...
...Spook Sonata. August Strindberg, Eugene O'Neil, Robert Edmond Jones, Kenneth MacGowan and Clare Eames contributed their considerable capabilities toward the production of this play. When it was all over and the curtain down, the rest of the group might well have turned and leveled accusing fingers at Strindberg. He wrote a play which is virtually incomprehensible. Various supernatural beings assemble and a certain villainous ancient is strangled by a mummified old woman. In the final act the hero admonishes the audience to be good because man's sins will seek him out. While the moral is clear...
There is an air of foolishness about it all--this serious, cold-blooded hunting of a "spook", that appeals to one's sense of the ludicrous. Yet there is a certain reluctance, too, to see an old romantic supposition thus thrown overboard, and "ghaieties, and ghoulies, and things that go bump in the nicht" relegated to the sphere of the harmless. If this goes on much longer, Poe will be regarded as hopelessly mediaeval, and night-time will resolve itself into a mere prosaic absence of daylight, and we shall all be carrying our own outfits of ghost-catchers...