Word: hauntedness
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Wandering in a haunted Venezuelan jungle, a naturalist once heard a trilling note, birdlike, clear, unearthly. Stumbling in the thickets, he sought its source for days, but it always eluded him. One day by accident he came upon the triller.
Theirs was the spook with which a bailiff, carrying a Municipal Court summons, haunted the Blackstone Hotel last week seeking Senator Moses. But the Senator was not to be found. Hotel employes explained he had "just checked out."
"I have been haunted always by the Southern highlanders' need of a recorder. Being driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation, I at last took up the work of their defense. To do this it has been necessary to make a long study of their idiom and...
From Freedom, Me., from Ty Ty, Ga., from Roosevelt, Minn., from Coolidge, Kan.-from some 35,000 Rural Free Delivery routes throughout the land have gone a dime each from country mailmen. Each 10? contribution rolled into Washington to make up a total of $3,500. With this fund a...
Playwright Francis de Croisset, a familiar figure in the U. S.-haunted Ritz bar, tried an epigram: "For women an idea always has a face."