Word: hauntedness
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Even before Miss Daphne Dumaurier's days, there were rich men picking up poor girls in Monte Carlo, packing them off to some haunted castle in Scotland, braving slick villains and a heart-rending trial, and living happily ever after. Even before a novel by the name of "Rebecca" achieved...
Last week Robert Joseph Casey was back in Luxembourg sending alarming dispatches to his paper, the Chicago Daily News. Round-bellied, globe-trotting Bob Casey knows his Luxembourg better than any other reporter in the business. He first went there as an artilleryman in 1918, loved it so well that...
A pioneer tells of striking into the Indian-haunted plains west of Missouri immediately after a troop of soldiers has been massacred. Led by a 23-year-old lieutenant who understands Indian "deviousness," the party forestalls a night attack by winking bull's-eye lanterns around their camp, concludes...
The plot drones on about a houseful of servants who try to rehabilitate their bankrupt master by palming off a pretty scullery maid as a debutante, hoping she will bag a millionaire. The stage swarms with snooty butlers, comic valets, tripping parlormaids, hoity-toity housekeepers, red-nosed cooks. Higher and...
Vag's father had always talked to him about the melting pot of golden opportunity that was America. But his father was a buoyant optimist of the 1890's and early 1900's, while Vag was inclined to think of himself as a hard-boiled post-war cynic. His was...