Word: quaver
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...Forsytes) even before the appearance of this strange and unsafe creature (Bosinney). It is perhaps straining a point for the sake of consistency to carry over this symbolical hierarchy into all of Galsworthy's work: the essay manages it with but little implausibility. If the symbolistic explanation seems to quaver in some places, it is balanced by first-rate exposition, of the theme of Forsytes possessiveness, of the links between Forsyte character and the changing world outside its demesne...
...lively story and a few well-directed scenes in which Dorothy Jordan blubbers in affecting treble. Roadhouse Murder is passable melodrama. Most obvious of its flaws would have been corrected had Director J. Walter Ruben persuaded Eric Linden to deliver a few of his lines without a pathetic quaver...
...derbies cocked proudly, rowed through the whole fleet to the plaudits of all (as one spectator was heard to remark: ". . . and they could even row!")? Sir, the old days may have gone, the ancient heroes may have yielded their pedestals to upstarts, but one voice, so long as a quaver still remains, will be raised to defend the just glories of the Lowell Gentlemen and their honored Coach. Sincerely yours, James B. Gregg...
...Bowman, Ga., Mr. & Mrs. John R. Ginn named their sixteenth child Quaver Ginn. Other Ginn children: Brodie, Corbin, Dorcas, Elmira, Fezzan, Gregor, Hassie, Ithmar, Jessie, Kester, Lisbon, Manson, Nelson, Ornice, Pascal...
...under a dark star, Nancy Pringle never knew whether it was the Master of Fassefern who had sired her, or Willie Weams, the groom. Divot Meg, the village's woman, out of compassion for Nancy, swore it was the master, then strangled Nancy's mother lest she quaver her own doubts in the matter. Others, less generous, preferred to believe it was the groom; hoped thereby to establish superiority over the spirited little orphan. The flaccid minister took her in; his wife sanctimoniously bullied her; his old mother defended her in malicious warfare with the wife...