Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chill, rainy night four days after President Roosevelt's inauguration, a group of newspapermen huddled under the White House portico, waiting for the proclamation which would keep every bank in the land closed for days. Dolefully, four of the men started to sing "Home on the Range." National Broadcasting Co. heard of their performance, persuaded them to sing their song over the radio, introduced them as the White House Portico Quartet.* The song and the singers got national publicity. President Roosevelt interrupted an important conference to listen to the program, afterwards telephoned the broadcasting studio and pretended...
...Excellency the Earl of Bessborough, Governor General of Canada was in bed last week with a severe chill. But Canada was as hot as the Earl was cool. From Quebec to British Columbia angry little groups talked of his behavior while newspapers demanded a public apology...
Uncle Al was suspended and Lord Bessborough caught his chill...
...Duchess of Alba whom he painted nude and copied clothed to fool her jealous husband (Maia Desnuda, Maia Vestida, now in the Prado at Madrid). One night when her carriage broke down on an Andalusian hill, Goya built a fire, welded the axle with his hands, caught a chill which deafened him for life. Coarse, snub-nosed, his face creased by excess, Goya, in spite of his duchess who used to come to his studio to be rouged by him, worked incessantly. He painted courtiers, decorated churches, produced Los Caprichos, his most famed etchings. These showed madmen, convicts, prostitutes, gluttonous...
...from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over his roof. He heard a motor cut off. He heard a crash...