Word: shivers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
Britons last week could only hope that the Ghost of Christmas Present would provide a transformation for them, as it had for Scrooge. Instead, they chuckled grimly over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this...
Some ads (like Wheaties') are good for a laugh, some (like Packard's) are good for a sigh, and some (like Listerine's) for a shiver of apprehension, but very few are good just to look at. Among those few are the ads dreamed up by youthful designer Paul Rand. Rand packed 102 of his best jobs (plus a few stilted pages of art philosophizing) into Thoughts on Design, published last week (Wittenborn...
...cramps. I get rheumatism. I froze my ear. I shiver night & day. I [have to] stay near the stove to steam...