Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chill London dawn broke on Covent Garden last week and disclosed a sight other than the wholesale display of artichokes, turnips, lettuce, peas. Outside the shabby old opera house which today stands in the centre of the market district, a queue of patient men and women had formed. Wise ones had brought camp stools, rolls, coffee, to wait as comfortably as possible to buy their seats for the opening of London's opera and social season. At 7 p. m. those fortunate enough to have gained admission were gawking excitedly at the entrance of three princesses into the Royal...
...Prohibition Commissioner Doran sent a chill through his audience when he declared: "If under the lash of extremists, harsh and restrictive measures are adopted toward scientific and industrial groups [using alcohol], we will witness a terrific blow to scientific and commercial progress. . . . The crippling of our institutions, our medical arts and our commercial organizations . . . is too big a price to pay for this extreme brand of Prohibition...