Were it not for its very tragical possibilities, the evocation of this bogey would be a fit subject for mirth, or, at best, a problem for the folk-lorist or the student of corporate hallucination.
The bogey takes the specific form of a charge against the Jews of Russia and Poland that they are for the most part Bolsheviks, and that the Bolshevist revolution was engineered by them and is still controlled and directed by them.
It was, however, in Germany that the bogeywas adapted for consumption in Western Europe.
This was swiftly and angrily noted by the Ultramontane polemists, and the oldbogey of a "Formidable Sect" began to haunt them in a revised and enlarged form.
The appearance of the bogeyat this moment is not difficult to understand.
The case against the bogey is, however, not limited to these generalisations.
I have been merely holding them over our friend in the library as a bogey to induce him to go quietly on board the steamer.
But that bogeyhas been effectually set up, I think.
Then he establishes a money-box with two sections in it, one being for bogey and the other for himself, and into each section he deposits four half-crowns, which is very little to pay for all the enjoyment he is about to gain.
He plays against bogey on terms that give him an equal chance.
When bogey beats him one of the half-crowns is lifted out of the man's section into the ghost's, but when flesh and blood prevail the coin comes back.
Again, I have known men to derive pleasure and improvement from a system of practice against the ordinary bogey by which they merely reckoned the number of holes at which they equalled or beat the phantom's figures, disregarding the losses.
To shame him out of hypocrisy, there is nothing better than laughter; and if a true believer, laughter will best free him from terror of his bogey devil and no less bogey god.
She had believed the episode of the china was completely finished with, and here it had cropped up again like some horrible bogey prepared to haunt her.
One venerable bogey I wish to dispose of before I close.
Is is quite likely that the golfers of Elie worked out a bogey of their own independently.
Several bogey matches were played at the United Service Club, and they were reported in the papers, with some explanation of the new system.
There was the idea of bogey in golf, and it flashed across the mind of Major Wellman when he was playing this game and getting caught by bogey.
There is no sort of sense in saying that the bogey of a particular hole is 4 or 5, or anything else that it may be put down at.
Although some have it that bogey was born at Elie, a Coventry gentleman, Mr. Hugh Rotherham, is more generally believed to have been the first to come by the germ of the idea.
Already in some parts of the country there are four-ball foursomes against bogey being played, and some wild ideas for new-fangled competitions have been sent across the Atlantic to us from America.
You generally find that as a golfer gets on in experience he cares less and less for bogey play, if he ever cared for it at all; but the new generation like it apparently, and will have it.
Wellman, on this system, and that winter the "bogey man" song was the hit of the pantomimes in the music-halls.
IV Just lately certain desperadoes, whom one need hardly say had no connection with the premier club, held a bogey competition over the new course at St. Andrews.
In the threatening style of lullaby, the bogeyplays a considerable part.
At the first sight of the bogey the dog paused suspiciously for an instant, but when I sat down to the table as usual, he hesitated a little and after snuffing at it went back to his couch.
I went back to the house and called my dog, who followed me quietly until he reached the spot from which he could see the bogey distinctly enough for him to recognize its identity with the one with which he was already familiar.
One evening when the moon shone doubtfully and there was just light enough to distinguish the outline of things, I carried the shapeless bogey into the garden near my room, and placed it among some shrubs and bushes.
Again, I placed a scarecrow or bogey in a parti-coloured dress in the spacious kennel of a hound while he was absent from it.
I shut up the dog in another room, brought back the bogey to its former place, and threw a strong light upon it before recalling the dog.
As a consequence, although thebogey was five, Bob did it in four and won the hole.
Sin is no bogey erected by the theologians, no ghost imagined by minds grown morbid with the fear of God.
This "bogey God" is in earnest about nothing except the observance of his little rituals; he is unworthy of a good man's worship, he has no purpose that can capture the consent and inspire the loyalty of serious folk.
We kept our course, and just as we came abreast of your bogey ship she hauled down her signal lights and steamed away.
Steamer broken down," he said; "thought it might be your bogey ship.
It would stop eating meat, not on valid Shelleyan grounds, but in order to get rid of a bogey called Uric Acid; and it would actually let you pull all its teeth out to exorcise another demon named Pyorrhea.
It is, in truth, nothing more than a resuscitation in part of the oldbogey of the Yellow Peril.
I do not think France ever will be foolish enough to stretch forward her fists against Japan on account of the yellow peril bogey concerning Indo-China.
I am just beginning to discover that fear is the greatest devil we have to contend with and that the less we worry about it the less real and the more a mere bogey it becomes.
The "yellow peril" bogey is, in my opinion, the silliest and most absurd cry that has ever been put forward by responsible persons.
They allowed the bogey talk of the astronomers to frighten them.
I feel as if I heard of St. Securis as children hear of Santa Claus, and as if that big tree were a bogey I still believed in.
You don't mean to tell me you accept this bogey story about starving millions marching?
Were Santa to waken, she would refute the Captain's bogey stories.
