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Oldtime patrons of Manhattan's National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...
...Chicago, you make me shiver With your dirty streets and your stinking river...
...Statesman & Nation, Scientist Louis Herrman revived and elaborated Author Herbert George Wells's plan for carrying jobless workmen through periods of depression by mildly refrigerating them, hibernating them until society again needs them. The method: Cool the body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians in their prime might...
Blessed are the little children who shiver from the cold, for their suffering shall receive "sympathetic consideration...
Oldtime campaigners when approached with the question as to whom they would nominate as champion hunter of Greene County usually designate Donald Henderson of Nineveh and Elza Shiver of Spraggs. There are no necessary qualifications for captaincy of competing teams except that the candidate must be one of the "gang" and a leader in affairs of the countryside...