Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...
...thing for him to do. Rising late in the evening, he began by rebuking the Conservatives for insinuating that should the Labor party be returned to power they would not preserve "England's word as good as her bond!" Sir Austen Chamberlain (with a Victorian shudder): "That is the only inference that can be drawn from Snowden's words." Mr. MacDonald: "A totally false inference! I have always declared that the American debt settlement was bad; but inside this House and out of it I have said that so far as we are concerned, until that agreement
...woodpulp and paper production goes to the U. S. International Paper & Power Co., a U. S. concern with holdings in the Dominion (see p. 40), has developed such a grip over the U. S. supply that last year the threat of a Canadian embargo made U. S. newspaper publishers shudder...
...moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...
...shudder this time was, however, very slight and conducted away by the excellent acting of Victor McLaglen; not to mention the presence in the picture of Lois Moran. Mr. McLaglen is usually a sympathetic actor, and Miss Moran is always very nice to look at--which may seem like a too categorical statement but is meant merely as an expression of personal preference...