Word: tremoring
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Last week one of the high-backed black chairs next to Chief Justice Hughes was empty. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 90, was home with an attack of lumbago. Though he later returned to the bench, his absence caused a tremor of apprehension to run through the court. His colleagues had noticed that Mr. Justice Holmes's shoulders were a little more stooped, that his step was a little more feeble, that he sat and rose with a little more difficulty. During this term Mr. Justice Holmes has been more silent, less smiling than usual. Rarely now does he interrupt...
...very ancient fracture in the earth's crust, extending from the Bay of Fundy, Southwest, to the region of Cape Ann. That zone has caused so many earthquakes in the last three centuries that whenever one is felt near Boston, it is suspected as being the cause. The last tremor was felt about Boston on January 7, 1925. Professor Mather believes that there may be a repetition of the event within the next two or three weeks, but that if it happens at all, it will not be of serious consequence...
Other possible origins of the quake are the Merrimac Valley, and the St. Lawrence Valley in Quebec. Professor Mather believes, however, that it is very unlikely that they were the cause of the tremor. Associated Press dispatches state that the strongest effects of the earthquake were felt in Nova Scotia, rather than in the vicinity of Boston...
...through the gruff eloquence of the high-principled warden, magnificently acted by Arthur Byron, Mr. Flavin damns the tragic system that man has developed to police the race, makes the so-called science of penology seem as hideously false as some black, antiquated alchemy. Russell Hardie conveys every horrific tremor, mental and physical, of the unfortunate youth...
...think of it! The women of other countries dare the danger of the long journey to these far lands without a tremor, while, needless to say, our women sit idly at home, not so much as stepping outside their own front door. Even our men do not dare take one step toward an ambition to make a new home in distant parts...