Word: chillness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College publication takes to its bosom the woes of the undergraduate "whose desire for knowledge is distorted by restrictions, and sicklied o'er by contact with the chill, thus must thou do! Ambition burns, but it is shut within a hamper, with the Faculty and the System sitting upon the lid. The tyrants...
...TERROR PERIL SENDS COLD CHILL UP FRENCH SPINES...
...capacity, plow across it, 600 miles a day or more, over the same spots where, on the ancient maps, great monsters with fluctuating tails engulfed the early mariner, across the same areas where great storm gods with puffing cheeks emerging from the cloud in bas relief blew the chill blast of sudden death upon lost adventurers. The mystery is gone. And the danger...
...rostrum, proclaimed his text: "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Finally, said he: "No person in whose heart reposes guilty knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt chill dawn creep through an open door. A solitary woman came toward him. She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tearstained, slummocky. When she began to speak, a little hysterical, the captain woke up. She told of a night spent on her knees before an unopened bed, of wrestling with...
...hears from the hairdresser that "that dangerous woman" is stopping at Bar Harbor, the very next town. As Miss Coe puts it, "she revisits the spot as a criminal revisits the scene of her crimes". A tense War of the Roses follows, but Tony gets "a cold chill" by visiting the widow. The "fire of youth" is turned to "true love", Mother Mason attaches herself to the Professor, and "The Other Rose" at last has her "romance...