Word: quiverers
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...Diligenti Quintuplets of Argentina-Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda, María Cristina, and Franco-posed for photographers and looked like a fine quiver-full for Papa. Their dresses and ribbons looked like the same they wore for their second-birthday picture last July. But María Fernanda now asserted herself -with a spit curl...
...January, flowers for June). Greenaway's grave little girls, in long frocks and wide sashes, and her good little boys, in pork pie hats, were painted on dinner sets, turned into salt & pepper shakers; oil lamps were embossed with Greenaway designs; valentines like those from Greenaway's Quiver of Love were de rigueur for little lovers. Samples of these were on display in the Chicago Public Library...
...Britain, exiled King Zog I (full title: Bird the First, King of the Sons of the Eagle) received the news with hardly a quiver of his finely pointed mustache, issued a routine protest: "The King cannot consider these elections [establishing the new regime] as free. It would have been our desire, after this long and tragic period, that the people of the country should be free to re-establish the situation as they wanted...
Worst sufferer was the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, a 13,000-ton yearling. Her bow began to quiver under the buffeting of mountainous seas; the forward compartments were cleared of men, and just in time. A huge wave threw her 10° to 15° off her course; the next tore off 104 feet...
Telekinesis and Pseudopods. At 20, Daniel Home was the U.S.'s star medium. He had only to enter a room for the furniture to quiver expectantly. "Pillars of cloud appeared in doorways and spirit forms lounged near windows ... if [the audience] glanced over their shoulders, they might catch an ottoman in the act of pouncing. . . . Pianos playfully wedged old ladies against the walls . . . hassocks stood up and tapped out messages [once the spirits ordered beer for Mr. Home] . . . folding doors swung unnervingly open and shut." To his brilliant repertory of telekinesis (the "science" of moving ob jects without touching...