Word: shudder
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...horrors of war are many. We shudder for the poor French snail, which may no longer visit our neutral shores. But--Venus is with...
...inclined to shudder at the addition of yet another club to the already long role of Harvard's non-social organizations. Almost every conceivable interest and movement finally results in the birth of a formal association. Some of these last six months, some struggle faintly for a year or so against the tide of more powerful attractions, and a few become permanent. It seems at last as though there were no room for more organizations...
...commons are served, and the occupants are required to take their meals there; the board will be about $5 a week. What this departure alone will mean to thousands of men it would be hard to exaggerate; but there are multitudes of Harvard men who will recall with a shudder their plunge into College life by way of Memorial Hall, or unfriendly boarding places, and the hopeless loneliness of the early days, without friends or ties, and a bedroom in some cheap frame boarding house. After these new buildings are initiated it will no longer be possible to tell...
...love of a heroine named Inez, and brave a villain named Morang, and go through savage ceremonies with bolos and nipa and tuba and other atmospheric perils, finally to be buried to the neck with syrup on his face and a swarm of red ants turned loose on him?--Shudder not, gentle reader, he is rescued in time to save his manly beauty, and the story ends with the fair Inez leaning over his hospital cot murmuring "Sh, dear...
...fighting game, nor is it one especially adapted for blacksmiths, stevedores or life-guardsmen. Nor is it particularly famous for shouldering, shoving, hauling, kneeing and mass-plays. Nor is it played by men in buckram, so padded and protected that the players' grandmothers cannot look at them without a shudder. But it is football, and the kind where the player punishes the ball and not the man. And a man can play it successfully without any strain upon his sense of fair-play or honesty and without any danger of being tempted to forget he is a gentleman. The ball...