Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruin him. He sued to examine the books of the Bank, in which he held stock, charging mismanagement of funds. How much of this tangle was truth and how much bad temper the world will never know. Last week the million dollar suits were discontinued with a hand shake. Poor people looked wistfully over the list of famed lawyers that had worked on the case, Charles Evans Hughes, Max D. Steuer, Hiram C. Todd, John Proctor Clarke, John W. Davis, etc. Such legal leviathans are often paid $5,000 for mere preliminary opinions. If they so wished they could exist...
...found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens to the CRIMSON candidate. He may drop in after two or three days, tell the Managing Editor that his studies are getting a bit harder, and he won't have time for the CRIMSON, shake hands and departs. Or he may cancel his social engagements for the next nine weeks, say good-bye to his roommate, and start working. Surprisingly few, once they have passed the first few trying days, ever quit. They keep on trying until they either make the board...
...young princess "or something," stood in front of a fireplace in the palace to receive the callers. Commander Savage and Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson had to poke and pull some of the delegates to show them that the slender lady was Queen Elizabeth, with whom they might shake hands also. Ambassador Gibson introduced the delegation by saying: "There they are, your Majesty. They have fought at Oudenarde, Courtrai, Bruges and Ghent...
...HARVARD, shake off the famous indifference, banish that deadly, dumb apathy that prevailed Saturday, make an effort to drown out your leaders' orders, and learn to take a beating on your feet as your team does instead of quitting and waiting for the timer's whistle to count you out! ALLEN D. BLISS...
...gold braid will probably fool the police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits her vengeance and marches off with the detective, scornful of a freedom that might have been...