Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the U. S. president was advertised by sightseeing companies as an attraction for Washington tourists. President Hoover shook 4,000 hands his first week in office. Last week he reduced handshaking days to two per week, Monday and Wednesday. The first Monday only 143 hands received the presidential grip...
...almost impossible route. If he should slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above. In such a crisis a Montague man can do only one thing-keep on climbing...
...this idea takes its proper grip upon the nation's populace the Tiger will have a big jump on all its competitors. As the crop of Woodrow Wilson Joneses matures this year and begins to consider which college to favor and why, the result is sure to be fore-ordained. Started off in life with such an advantage in name, all that remains is a Princeton education to insure two terms in the White House...
...from these days of meditation and prayer, Alfonso de Bourbon has seemed listless and melancholic. Last week it was thought that General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera has found this royal mood a favorable one in which to induce the King to sign several more decrees strengthening the Rivera grip of iron on Spain...
...Name, please?" whispers the aide, and repeats the answer to the President, who says "Good evening" and gives the guest's hand one firm vibrant grip, with a little final jerk which draws the guest in front of the First Lady almost before he can realize that his moment has come and passed. The First Lady repeats her husband's greeting and offers her hand...