Word: hauntedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The crowd that heard Vice-Presidential Candidate McNary disappointed Oregon Republicans, although it was the biggest for a political event in Oregon's history. (For Franklin Roosevelt at Portland in 1932, 8,000; for his dedication of Bonneville Dam in 1937, 6,000.) A small thing before the speech...
Dostoevski's life was as subterranean as the human nature he wrote of. As a young writer he haunted the windy corners and foul alleys of hated St. Petersburg, was sentenced to death for revolutionary conspiracy, instead spent four years in prison, six years' exile in Siberia. Jailed...
Mrs. Miniver is haunted by evanescence. Each of her little sketches has the same haunted quality, an echo of the sense of time slipping away, which is Mrs. Miniver's main concern. Her frail net of words is flung to rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar...
Almazán's father was a wealthy landowner in the mountains south of Mexico City. Juan deserted medical school for revolution at 19, and at 29 was already a divisional general. Since 1921, when he was put in charge of the Seventh Military Zone, around Monterrey, he has...
With far fewer sentimental soft spots than The Yearling, Author Rawlings' short stones deal with such Florida crackers as starvation-haunted farmers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, moonshiners. Readers of The Yearling know her sharp ear for dialect, her landscapist's feelings for the scrub country. Her short stories show...