Word: shivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another testing device described at the meeting was a vibrator which causes a battleship "to shiver like a man with the ague." The machine has two heavy weights rotating eccentrically so that vibrations are set up in all riveted joints or welded seams and unhealthy tremors exposed. Declared C. H. Gibbons, technical adviser to Baldwin-Southwork Corp.: "When this machine is attached to a battleship still under construction, it is possible to simulate the stresses and strains to which the ship would be submitted during a storm...
...Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck in the ceiling, but as dramaturgy it is more convincingly dead than any of Dr. Mason's victims...
Almost concealed by this carnival gaiety and charm is a polished satine of Viennese high life. The gossipy grande dame who longs for the less discreet scandals of the good old days and young wife who doesn't shiver with only a muff for protection, are digs at a frivolous society...
...seats in an Eastern Air Lines transport, undisturbed by the rough air because their pilot was famed Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whose exploits, besides flying U. S. mail in a bathing suit (see cut, p. 74), have included twice hopping the Atlantic (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936). Suddenly a thudding shiver ran through the plane as a wingtip sliced a treetop. Recalled Passenger W. T. Critchfield: "It sounded at first like a heavy truck running on gravel very fast. I looked at Saggio [a passenger across the aisle] and saw him still strapped in and then suddenly he was flying through...
Nights the one window in the bedroom of my Attic makes clatter enough for twenty, shaking and banging, postponing sleep. Lie and shiver under blankets as proof as gossamer, which absorbs the sheets' unfriendly chill. Gradually warmer inside and colder outside my bed. The tip of the nose stays outside the blankets, stays cold. Like a healthy...