Word: shiverings
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...excused himself for a minute and went out to shiver in the cold air. The music was fainter, but still you could hear it from the upstairs window. I hate dancing, Vag thought and thought over and over. Do girls really like it? Oh, here she was she followed you. What's the matter, Vag dear! Why do you run away from me! Do you want me to go home I will I'll go home we're neither of us having a good time, darling. Yes, said Vag aloud, then yes yes yes yes to himself I want...
Mail Service. A short cut-which makes the P.C.L. shiver-is the possibility of moving one or more big-league franchises into Los Angeles or San Francisco, or both. Air travel would certainly enable Eastern teams to keep up with their schedules...
...Enjoy the Papacy." On first sight, Florence does not seem to have changed much. Tourists buzz over Martinis at Leland's* and shiver in dutiful awe before the graves of Machiavelli and Galileo. Business is good and the city is well fed. But there are many different Florences. There is the Florence of only yesterday-of the anglicized local aristocracy which used to go fox hunting without foxes, mounted in pursuit of a butler who panted across the pine-plumed hillsides strewing a trail of paper scraps. That Florence is certainly gone...
...arts and ways of life, Canby admits that the young men of his time took flight in coveys to the relative freedom of college life. In college, however, they found a juvenile competitive society exactly suited to put them back where they came from. Says he: "I can still shiver with humiliation over slights remembered for thirty-odd years, and warm at the memory of unforgettable mirth," or of his more rakish classmates with "their tiny straw hats with negligible brims, and voluminous white ducks under neat little coats whose tails scarcely cover [their] waistbands...
...crashing down eleven points to 119 on the Financial Times index, their worst fall since Dunkirk. Even consols (British Government bonds), which are generally regarded by Britons to be as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, sagged to a two-year low, then rallied slightly. The scare caused a shiver in Wall Street, where the ten-week long upswing in stock prices suddenly halted. The Dow-Jones industrial index dropped 3.85 points from the July high of 187.66. This week the market slipped off again, with steel and automobile shares leading the drop...