Word: gooseflesh
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...another company and ask them to show you their mines?" Impeding his investigation of sharecroppers were the wary answers to his questions, the outspoken disapproval of the vigilantes (voiced by shooting at him and his companions of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union), his own gooseflesh-reaction to the incredible poverty of sharecroppers' homes...
...bring home this sensation, but to those who have ever seen the start of a varsity race in the annual Intercollegiate Regatta at Poughkeepsie there can be no other most thrilling moment. It's there, and it's got everything that goes to give any fun excitement and gooseflesh...
...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...
White Zombie (United Artists) is the latest jitter & gooseflesh cinema. Dracula was the first of the current witches' Sabbath of horror pictures (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931), followed by Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue and Freaks. All have been box office successes...
...cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...