Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hooded spectre will haunt Benjamin Irish to the end of his days. The spectre is Zev, American three-year-old, who looked through his white hood at the hindquarters of Mr. Irish's Papyrus for only the opening seconds of the International race at Belmont Park, L. I. Zev won by five lengths...
...universal language. At last Eskimos and Ethiopians will be able to converse congenially; perhaps, in the twenty-first century, the debates of the League of Nations Assembly will no longer be mutilated by interpreters; and in later years the University's hoodoo, the language requirement will cease to haunt the undergraduates...
...zealous social service workers of Phillips Brooks House are missing an opportunity. Instead of going to distant Roxbury or South Boston they might save themselves carfare and do Cambridge a good turn by opening a campaign to Clean Up Harvard Square. The muckers that haunt its precincts are a favorite subject for humorists:-- their pleas for "scrambles"; their shrill persistency in disposing of "Globe, Trawler, Transcri't, and A-Merrycan"; their conversational invasions of unprotected dormitories, are all notorious. But the social service workers seem to have overlooked them. If we stop to think of them seriously, the dangers...
...noble wounded French officers arrived in Cambridge. The 3,500,000 starving children in Europe are the last phase of the Great War. America cared for 6,500,000 of these children in 1919. We cannot turn these invisible guests into the street; if we do they will haunt our homes for generations.--Harvard will do her part. Herbert Hoover...
There are lines in "The Governor's Wife" that haunt us. It is a keen rapier that writes them, but it is a rapier which tickles without wounding. Josefina insists on her husband's "lack of character," imploring him to make up his mind about anything. "If it turns out to be wrong, all the more reason for sticking to it." She conceives of her husband heroically: "If he rides into office on horseback like Don Quixote, he will ride out on an ass like Sancho Panza." She leaves no doubt in his mind: "I loved you out of pity...