Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sober-sided City men of the British Bankers Association were treated one night last week to an outburst of joy from the most formidable Tory of them all-the chill Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain. The man who has given Britain budget surpluses for two years past rose in his place, took off his eyeglasses, looked paternally about him and all but chortled, "We meet in an atmosphere of such happiness and contentment as has not been seen since the War." He proceeded to document the atmosphere with an impressive set of figures...
Smiling hugely, gigantic, handsome King Christian boarded his yacht, set sail through the channels and islands of his kingdom for the port of Fredericia in Jutland last week. Bitterly cold for May, it was snowing hard, but that could not chill His Majesty's verve. He was about to inaugurate Denmark's most important post-War project, the longest bridge in continental Europe, which will revolutionize the country's transport system. Traveling more comfortably, Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen, the rest of Copenhagen's diplomatic corps and some 700 other officials came down for the ceremony...
...luck. When he called his followers to order in the open air amphitheatre of the Iowa State Fair Grounds, they equaled only a fraction of the 18,000 people who were in Des Moines that day to see the 26th annual Drake Relays The sky was dark and a chill April wind whistling past the microphones moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long's arrival distracted everyone's attention. Then Huey Long drove...
Recognizing the complications of St. Francis' malaria, however, fills Historian Hartung with greater pride. The malaria was the quartan type and gave the Saint a chill every four days during the last twelve years of his life. No doctor attempted to treat this disease. St. Francis' stomach, spleen and liver were infected, causing him great anguish. He developed those other signs of malignant malaria, dropsy and hemorrhages...
...mostly followed the New Deal's desires. Day after Senator Wagner left the reservation, Senator Byrd followed him, moved also by convictions but of a different kind. Said he: "The course we are pursuing-borrowing money for public expenditures and increasing our enormous deficit each year-will chill the confidence of businessmen in the future prospects of reasonable profits. . . . Business is ready to resume its forward march once it can be assured that the currency will remain sound, that the budget will be balanced . . . that economy and efficiency will inspire the Government...