Word: quiverers
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...Saloonkeeper Marlene is quite at home in her rough-&-tumble role. Strong men quiver as she coaxes them on with: "Anything you can win you can collect." Nobody but Miner Wayne, who has already had the best years of Cherry's life, collects much. He gets her, his appropriated mine, and a beautiful going-over to boot. All ends well in the sturdiest of melodramas...
...local Fascist organization showing Istanbul (called "Tsarigrad-City of the Kings") as part of the new Bulgaria. But Berlin-made propaganda has not impressed everyone. Said the newspaper Zora: "We are struck by the confused psychological conceptions of a small section of our intelligentsia. . . . Their nerves do not quiver if the Allies achieve a victory. There is no single grimace at the announcement of bad news...
...through Szechwan Province last week the squealing of unoiled wheelbarrows made sensitive eardrums quiver. Rice was wheeling in-tons of rice in dust-coated, round, bulging sacks. In the ears of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the sound was a screech of victory. It meant that Szechwan, Chungking's Province, at last...
...East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...
...last week, another earthquake came to Mexico City. There was no need to tell any Mexican what it was. As the first quiver became a convulsive shock, clerks and politicos, smartly dressed girls and beggars dropped on their knees in the streets to pray...