Word: hauntedness
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The Hidden Key. To explain Hawthorne's curious bent in terms of heredity and the "Puritan conscience" means next to nothing; there were hundreds of other young New Englanders in the 1820s and '30s who grew up with a similar inheritance. The key is hidden somewhere in the...
Glimpses are about all one can get of the coy genius in these stories and sketches. But they are as good an index as any to the color and quality of his haunted mind.
The article on John L. Lewis was a flagrant case in point: "Paunchy Mr. Lewis is haunted by fat stomachs," but you fail to mention the equally important point that Mine Operator O'Neill is not haunted by them. And Harlan County, Kentucky is tacitly ignored!
Blithe Spirits. In Niagara Falls, Ont.. a plaintive ad ran in the Review: "Wanted to rent-a haunted house or apartment, by a young couple who are just ghosts of their former selves."
The Chicago Tribune's tall, tired-looking Photographer Frederick Giese had been covering courts for eleven years. He had stuck his head into Judge Joseph Sabath's court about a zillion times. What had he seen? Well, brother, he'd never seen no Gypsy Rose Lee dancing...