Word: shudders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dinny Charwell is keeping a stiff upper lip over her late disastrous love-affair with her Byronic poet (Galsworthy enthusiasts will remember with a shudder that he was also an apostate). This time it is her sister Clare who is in a mess. After 18 months of married life she has come back from Ceylon with the news that her able husband is a sadist. On the boat home young Tony Croom has fallen in love with her. Clare's husband follows her to England, tries to make her come back with him, and when he fails, warns...
...reporters now refer to it as a rat-haunt, shudder at its squalid gloom. To Ben Day it was the amazing manifestation of a newspaper idea he had conceived, toyed with, but left to others to carry through...
...Hanford, Dean"--such is the way that countless formidable-looking bulletins, memoranda, and communiques from University Hall are signed. No title is so curt, nor so instantaneously effective, and consequently when the eye beholds it, that eye will almost automatically shudder and blink twice. Back of the door, in "University 4," uninvitingly marked "Dean of Harvard College," though, there sits a kindly gentle enough looking man who will spring up at once when you enter, or even come to the door for you, and who will offer you a chair as though there were nothing better to do than...
...Society, student and alumni letter-men's organization at the University of California, fortnight ago announced a project the nature of which would cause an ethical shudder if proposed in the East. The Big C will appoint a fulltime representative to canvass secondary and high schools for young athletes and tell them about California "as a place of clean athletics combined with sound scholastic standards." The Big C man will be paid a salary. The Big C asks friends to help. Funds will be audited, kept out of the hands of athletes. Needy men may be helped...
Governor Olson's threat to attack misery by declaring martial law and confiscating private property was the first of its kind in the land. Newspapers picked up his words and headlines far beyond the borders of the State made conservative readers shudder. The Governor and the State Senate fell to political bickering over relief principles as the day for the Legislature's adjournment this week approached. Only if it went home without action would the Olson threat become more than tall talk...