Word: shiverers
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...People, particularly embusqués, are inclined to talk now of the bombing of London as a major operation of the War and shiver at the thought, whereas in fact only 670 were killed-a mere fleabite in these Belisha days. In 1928 more than double that number were killed [in traffic accidents] in the streets of London. Now the returns are astronomical, but because of the dangers of the streets I do not sleep under...
...What scandal forced a French Mayor to shiver in a jail in which he had refused to install central heating...
...many moons would pass before it was either repealed or modified, for though there has been no reliable evidence whatsoever that the requirements of the Act have prevented the flotation of any but the most shady new issues, nevertheless its general effect has been to throw one more unnecessary shiver into the already tremulous limbs of the banking fraternity. And now Roosevelt has advised that revisions be made to alter the psychological impasse thus created by removing much of the stringency attached to the administration of the Act. If this tactical retreat does not achieve the end it seeks...
...grimy Union Square radicals ("We Seldom Fill Our Stomics, But We're Full of Economics") in song: Down, down with the House of Morgan! We'll blow up the Roxy organ! Down with novelists like Zola! Down with pianists who play "Nola!". . . We will make all tyrants shiver. Down upon the Sewanee River! Happiness will fill our cup When everything is down that's up! With plenty of blue shirts already on hand, the revolution is not hard to start. In a quavering voice, Alexander Throttlebottom wins the support of the Union League Club by letting...
...immensely important to building owners in tropical and warm temperate regions. Termites do yearly damage estimated at $29,000,000 to farm buildings in the South. Seven years ago they began to alarm California. Last week Entomologist George Ethelbert Sanders of the American Museum of Natural History sent a shiver through New York City by waking it to the fact that for the first time it is seriously infested with termites...