[Ads-l] Shuddering Crime

[Jonathan Lighter]

A number of exx. from journalism (mostly 19th C.) can be found, e.g.:

1862 _Western Reserve Chronicle_ (Warren, O.) (Sept. 10) 1:  What shall we
say when we learn that such shuddering crimes are the guilt of the friends
they patronize, instead of being the acts of those they would condemn?"

I can't antedate 1848, though.

JL

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 3:50 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Google provides two other examples of shuddering crimes, that of “burning
> a Christian at the stake” and "the use of the wrong knife or fork” (the
> latter from Kate Langley Bosher’s 1911 story, “Miss Gibbie Gault”). Hard to
> know which category the North Koreans had in mind for us. Knowing their
> obviously strong feelings in this matter, our transgressions are probably
> serious enough to rank with the latter.
>
>
>
> > On Jun 17, 2020, at 1:39 PM, Andy Bach <afbach at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > From the North Korea spokesperson: " [the destruction of the liaison
> > office was a] reflection of the zeal of our enraged people to punish
> > human scum who challenged the noblest dignity and prestige of our
> > country and those who sheltered the scum, perpetrators of shuddering
> > crime."
> >
> > I admit, I am impressed with the pupleness of their prose. Found an
> > poem "The Thames" (by F.C.) in "The Drawing Room: or, Ladies Book of
> > Fancy Needlework and Choice Literature" magazine, Vol 1 (1848):
> >
> https://books.google.com/books?id=DlcEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA141&lpg=RA1-PA141&dq=%22shuddering+crime%22&source=bl&ots=52j7Qsbo9Z&sig=ACfU3U1Vrx7ngV6XILVChbNJRbYyOMYnUQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTqvTfr4nqAhW4RTABHaCBAngQ6AEwAnoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22shuddering%20crime%22&f=false
> > ...
> > Thou hast seen wonder in thy time,
> > Has tempted Folly to her death,
> > Hast shaken hands with shuddering Crime-
> > Companion they beneath?
> >
> > I suppose they could've had a subscription.
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> >
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