Word: shiver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believer in such tales, the Woodbridge Recorder surprised the complainants by ordering them to cease their blather about Mrs. Czinkota. When the Hungarians continued to shiver and mutter, the authority of the Church had to be invoked. The local Hungarian-speaking priest commanded the women to forget their fears, pacifically explained that Mrs. Czinkota might have been "under hypnotic influence" when observed by Hungarian peeping-Toms...
...Well, shiver my timbers! The Lucky Strike ad appearing on the back of last week's TIME (Sept. 7), I mean...
...portrait, seeing him as the link between New England and the Middle Ages. A great writer whose thoughts were always turning on tales of witchcraft and madness, Hawthorne had a genius which was always threatened by the quicksand of melancholy. He enchanted children with stories that could make adults shiver and his writing "clung to the mind like music." Cut off from the sources of his inspiration in old age, after his travels abroad, Hawthorne's genius disintegrated where Emerson's grew more powerful. At last he could not write at all, getting into that frantic state...
...Queen was sitting in the grass beside Alice with her arms folded rigidly across her chest. She let out a snort, and the blast made Alice shiver. "My dear, this demand and supply you talk about is nonsense. If you don't stop reading books, you will always talk like this. I only know that I want something, and if I have enough money in my pocket-book I go down to the store to buy it. And if the store doesn't have what I want, I take my money and go home again with-out what I came...
Well might Japanese financiers shiver as the Cabinet declaration went on to promise to "reform finance and economy . . . through measures for improvement and stabilization of the people's living so that all the subjects of the Emperor may enjoy their life. . . . The Government will not be shackled by custom but will effect reforms suited to the times...