Word: shudder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dull indeed is the author who cannot get some good laughs, provoke an occasional shudder, excite a few mildly erotic curiosities, inspire a self-congratulatory mood, in a book about African tribesmen. No dullard, Author Elspeth Huxley, a cousin-by-marriage of Novelist Aldous, has packed into Red Strangers well-above-average Africana for the money...
...half months together on the program, really wanted to demolish Charlie (not Bergen). There was a genuine, jealous glint in the old fellow's eye when he once threatened: "I'll carve you into a Venetian blind." "Oh Mr. Fields," minced Charlie, "you make me shudder...
...first page. Opening sentence: "No longer does the thoroughbred stallion snort under my loins," which means that Michael is home from the War. Michael goes to Heidelberg, grows lyric about a blonde maiden in the seat ahead: "Do I love Herta Hoik?" he asks himself. "I almost shudder at the crudeness of this word." But when she sends him a red rose: "Herta Hoik, I love you! I transform my little room into a royal palace...
...undisputed blue-ribbon icicle of the Yard. It measures a good three feet from tip to tip, and tapers from a saucer-like beginning down to a needle-sharp nonentity. At precisely the stroke of eleven o'clock this morning, a neighbor of this glistening giant gave one sickening shudder and came crashing earthward among the terrified students of "Shakespeare complete" as they elbowed their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed the blessings of the miracle of deliverance, and witnesses of the event took pains to sidle along the banister as far removed as possible from...
...voice shaking with emotion: "Make no mistake-if we do not succeed and the World does not succeed in finding some way to end the folly of this everlasting expenditure on armaments, then, indeed the future we shall be preparing for our children is one at which we may shudder! We speak as if our civilization was securely based, but there have been other civilizations than ours. Tutankhamen was forgotten until he was dug up. It is very possible that the things protecting our civilization are more slender than they are sometimes thought...