Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surely those few alumni who haunt the Yard periodically could be allowed free use of the reading rooms without benefit of examinations or undersecretaries, who think in terms of theses merely, and cannot catch the higher tones of courtesy. If courtesy will not avail with the officials, perhaps expediency would carry a firmer point. For at a time when the alleged necessities of economy are estranging the after dinner element in Widener's clientele, an enterprising bureaucracy with the instinct to survive would do well to make some new, influential, and yet inexpensive friends...
...reporters now refer to it as a rat-haunt, shudder at its squalid gloom. To Ben Day it was the amazing manifestation of a newspaper idea he had conceived, toyed with, but left to others to carry through...
...article he expounds at length on the deletrious influence of such programs as "Little Orphan Annie," and "Skippy," on his children. He describes his horror at hearing his six-year-old son command him to "Stick 'em up!" and indulges generally in the expression of those paranoiac which, appearently, haunt parents when their children decided to become sheriffs or outlaws. While the conclusions of the article are interesting only in their absurdity, they move in a just cause; if the programs in question are abolished for any reason whatever, it will be a forward step...
...there is a golden book, the vade mecum of everything worth keeping by in life, it is the memories of men known. This is the Vagabond's creed. Today his spirit will haunt old McKinlock, and perhaps will gain, as William Butler Yeats himself was the gainer from those afternoons at the stable beside Kelmscott House...
...that Harvard does but little earnest work, has no high standard of morality and is the seat of aristocratic extravagance," the survey goes on. "It is the purpose of the committee to determine whether or not this point of view is justified. We find that this place is the haunt of vice and the fast set, however, they, have been so unobtrusive that one would hardly know that they existed until a short time ago. It is certain that the fast set has the virtue of being so exclusive as to offer few temptations to the unwary...