Word: chilling
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...hysterically. This time London, too, was cordial; Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle. All Europe held concerts in his honor. On his way from Luxembourg to Bayreuth to hear Tristan a honeymooning couple entered his second-class compartment, leaned gaily out of the open window. Franz Liszt caught a chill. At Bayreuth it developed into pneumonia. His last word: "Tristan!" The Princess died a year later...
...Vagabond made the faintest discernible motion to brush away a tear, but years of discipline asserted themselves. He braced up and adjusted his cowl about his shoulders, against the tiny suggestion of a Fall chill. Slowly he descended the steps to the water's edge, to the conceald spot under the graceful arch of the bridge that serves him in summer as an anchorite's cell, against the day when the ivory walls of Memorial Hall Tower would be brushed free of cobwebs and it for winter's occupancy...
...themselves useful were brusquely disregarded. They had nothing to do. They were very lonely. Even to see each other at lengthy intervals they had to sneak off, take wearisome bus rides, sit shivering on park benches because they had no money, nowhere to go. When Father Cooper caught a chill and died because his daughter-in-law was too stingy to get a doctor, his old wife tried to take it well. She tried to mean it when she said: "At least he didn't die among strangers." With the old man out of the way, the family conclave...
...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...
...Last week Mr. Lloyd George, 71, lay ill of a chill at his home in Churt, Surrey...