Word: wraith
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Southward, Valparaiso and Center Colleges wrangled into a pointless tie. Center is but a wraith of the little giantess she was in the day of "Bo" McMillan, her bold, brash back of two seasons...
...contrast, Henry Cabot Lodge came and went like a silent wraith. He seemed frail, apparently steadied himself by the desks, so that a sudden draught might not upset him. He paused to chat with this one, with that one, with La Follette, with Pat Harrison, and then retired to recline in the background with legs stretched out and jacket tightly buttoned...
...Habanera sounded, Ramon stabbed Pedro. But Pedro before he died swore that he would come back to haunt his brother, would come back while the Habanera sounded. He did. The ghost, strumming a guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young woman knelt over the grave of Pedro, she, not knowing of the crime, to pray for the dead...