Word: chilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nights the one window in the bedroom of my Attic makes clatter enough for twenty, shaking and banging, postponing sleep. Lie and shiver under blankets as proof as gossamer, which absorbs the sheets' unfriendly chill. Gradually warmer inside and colder outside my bed. The tip of the nose stays outside the blankets, stays cold. Like a healthy...
Today, at the end of the post-war era, these first pleasant dreams of permanent peace have been shattered in the chill dawn of reality. For with Spain in flames and the rest of Europe an armed camp, the ideals for which America fought have been dashed to the ground, and the question in men's minds is not of celebration of conquest, but of keeping out of another catastrophe...
After the game, which was played on a wet field, he complained of a chill, but did not consider it serious. On Sunday his condition became alarming, and he was moved to the hospital...
...Surgeons Sir Charles Ballance and Arthur Baldwin Duel, both of whom died a few months ago. Surgeons Ballance and Duel taught the younger surgeons how to repair facial palsy. In that disease the facial nerve controlling all the muscles which give character and expression to the features, degenerates. A chill, a mastoid operation or a fracture may cause facial palsy. No matter what the cause, one side of the face falls slack as a wet towel on a hook. Half the features sag in a drooping grimace...
...Passes' picture of reality has been colored by his personal experiences. After the chapter in The Big Money describing Charley Anderson's return to the U. S., The Camera Eye relates memories of Dos Passes' own homesick return after the War: spine stiffens with the remembered chill of the offshore Atlantic and the jag of framehouses in the west above the invisible land and spiderweb rollercoasters and the chewinggum towers of Coney and the freighters with their stacks way aft and the blur beyond Sandy Hook...