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...blessing on a subtly sublimated form of falsity circulates throughout the country. With this publicity, Mark Twain's school of artistic lying has support in its war against prudish cherry trees. Apparently the hatchet is no vital weapon with which to attack the elastic spirit of falsehood. The ghost of Ananias may yet take corporeal form to lead the genial forces of fabrication...
Princeton was still unwilling to give up the ghost, and with four men down the ice, three times forced Cumings to do fancy splits to avert a score. With half a minute to go the whole Tiger pack came down the ice in close formation, but Chase robbed Davis of the puck, and with no one in front of him, bore down upon the Tiger goalguard. A goal seemed sure, but as the bell rang, Cole-brook topped off his evening's work, by meeting Chase in a fierce dive that prevented a score...
Strange prodigies foretold that he was destined to no ordinary way of life. The gargoyles on Memorial Hall were heard to laugh and shriek at midnight, and the ghost of Punch was seen in broad daylight astride an ibis in Mt. Auburn Street. And sure enough, as years went by, the fact was oft remarked that young Lampoon was not a common child. For hours he'd ponder over some inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered...
...profits. For Reuterdahl was not an artist; he was a craftsman; his craft, the faultless delineation of a ship. Not for him was the cloudy, light-streaked glory of Turner's seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played ghost with John Masefield's Wanderer; Reuterdahl went with natty-suited officers of the U. S. N. Yet, as a craftsman he was master of color. He could brighten the bulkhead of an officer's messroom. He could color the Missouri Capitol with brilliant sea-script proclaiming...
...ghost story that is, and isn't, is cast into a novel frame by Mr. Robert Pope in "The House of the Two Colonels". The story itself is too familiar in its general outlines to be entirely successful, and too unimportant to deserve much praise. Nevertheless, there is a moment of suspense that is worth reading for; that is, if you are not tired of haunted houses, and you ought never...