Word: shudder
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Although she may shudder at the new silhouette, the whole vast field of Accessorizing is still open to Radcliffe girl, why should she drag herself to Filene's basement when she can so easily succumb to the lore of a fashion magazine? The right accessory can turn a trump into a Mamie Eisenhower, a Princess Margaret into a Loroli Lee, and add a few stars to the moonglow of a Cinderella...
...modern English ghost stories in this anthology do not have the shudder value of the old bloody-head and clinking-chain school. Instead of haunting damp Ruddigorean castles, most contemporary ghosts seem to have settled into fashionable flats, where they play hob with the call bells and the central heating. Moreover, the authors in Editor Asquith's collection have adulterated an old-fashioned art form with Freudian complexes and social crisis; they have forgotten that the one thing a ghost story does not need is a rational explanation...
...around which nature has run wild. Here and there is a condemnation of the world's race for riches, occasional criticisms of Whitehall, its taxes and its colonial policy, a warning of the growth of Indian influence along the African shore of the Indian Ocean, and a perceptible shudder at memories of a normal life in modern civilization. A.C.D. is looking for something. He says it is peace, reason, and security. But a man who describes so feelingly the beautiful brutality of nature unshackled is not interested in peace. A man whose passions run so high he strikes natives...
According to Court's calculations, residents of Portland, Me. will shudder in - 28° cold and swelter in 107° heat before another hundred years have passed. New York City's climate will swing between 107° and -16°, while the great plains of the Midwest will reach 115° or higher. Los Angeles, says Court, will have to face an embarrassing 23° chill, but Angelenos can take consolation in the fact that the Florida coast will feel an even colder 9°. Despite the high odds that he is correct, Court, like any experienced weatherman...
...bell of Lawrenceville still rings in my head") and goes out for breakfast - sometimes to the railroad station, a three-mile walk. He eats whatever he feels like eating. "What did you have for lunch?" Woollcott once asked him. "Lobster Newburgh, cocoa and brandy." Said Woollcott with a shudder: "That's the worst meal since the Borden Breakfast...