Word: hauntedness
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When the swimming squad abandoned the special exercise room yesterday afternoon, where for two months it has labored under the sadistic direction of coaches Ulan and Muir, it found few of the distractions which hitherto have haunted its informal practices in the pool. The hordes of frolicsome, long-haired youths...
BYRON: THE YEARS OF FAME-Peter Quennell-Viking ($3.50). THE ROMANTIC REBELS-Frances Winwar-Little, Brown ($3.50). In July 1811, Byron returned to England from the Near East. He was 23, bored, cynical, a voluptuary who declared he had "drained life to the very dregs." Heavily in debt, he dreaded...
As the party is getting up steam, the father unexpectedly returns. But Tranio, wily house slave, silences the guests within the domicile, persuades its owner that it is haunted, and tells him that in his absence Philolaches has borrowed money to buy the neighbor's residence.
¶ To 2,000 businessmen assembled at Propheteer Roger Babson's National Business Conference at Babson Park, Mass., President Rudolf Hecht of American Bankers Association trumpeted: "The banker is no longer haunted by the fear of impending disaster. He is no longer filled with doubts as to what unexpected weaknesses...
¶ Atlantic City's Steel Pier offers not only cinema, minstrel shows, a zoo, a World War museum, a haunted house, a miniature Alpine village. Davy Jones's Locker, Tony Sarg's Blue Grotto etc., etc., but also the Steel Pier Grand Opera Company which performs on summer weekend nights...