Word: shudder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance is still concluded by Hugo Zacchini, who permits himself to be shot out of a cannon. Spectators shudder when they remember that an imitator, Harry Powers, died at Atlantic City when attempting the feat from an airplane...
Although the pseudo-modern reader may shudder to find again in print the picture of the mother of the Gracchi surrounded by her natural jewels, may be amused by the idea that the younger generation is any longer a practical object for the world's concern, Mr. Macy will find few male enemies by his treatment of woman as trouble and mischief-maker. Quoting, and later characterizing as "smart-aleck," Max Beerbohm's description of the militant suffragettes as the "army of the unenjoyed," he finds behind the W. C. T. U. and similar organizations the unconscious desire to ruin...
...very existence of St. Pauls Cathedral to be sacrificed on the altar ot commercialism?" asked Canon Sidney Arthur Alexander last week, and the whole Conservative press of Britain proceeded to shudder...
...passenger then gave the driver a handful of money, more than the legal fare, and clearly showed that his momentary knife-play had been a joke. But the sensitive driver concluded his story with a shudder, "But that shining knife?I can still see it dangling before my eyes...