Word: shudder
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...Coolidge spoke to delegates to the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety called by Secretary Hoover. Said the President: "If the death and disaster that now fall upon innocent people through the year and over our country as a whole were concentrated into one calamity, we would shudder at the tremendous catastrophe. The loss is no less disastrous because diffused in time and space...
...past two weeks, Germans throughout the length and breadth of Germany have taken an absorbing interest in their newspapers. Supercilious Frauen would adjust their thick pince-nez, glance at the headlines, shudder, read something else, return to the headlines, shudder again, put down the paper, go away, come back, look at the headline once more and again shudder, then plunge into the story...
...different from other people as possible, not hesitating to pose even before his few intimates. In the face of the rather sordid "underworld" life which Stevenson led in his early years in Edinburgh and London. Mr. Steuart does not, like the more obsequious biographers, turn aside and shudder. He tells the plain facts, and leaves the reader to draw his own conclusions...
...could have much worse. There may be many who will shudder at the sonnet beginning...
...calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there is a whole world of bookplates and bookplate-collectors in which you are the most ignorant of novices...