Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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European Socialists generally consider Foreign Minister Emile Vandervelde of Belgium the greatest French-speaking orator of their party now alive. His fame is international, his Socialism orthodox, courageous, enlightened. Therefore he did something last week, which recalled his refusal to shake hands with Signor Benito Mussolini at the Locarno Conference (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) on the imputed grounds that Il Duce is a backslidden Socialist turned traitor to "The Cause...
...first man to shake Signor de Pinedo's hand and to plant a kiss upon Signor de Pinedo's cheek was Premier Benito Mussolini, august upon a barge on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The people on the beach, taking their cue, applauded loudly, cheered lustily...
...Shake that thing...
Even less popular than the silver dollar has been the two-dollar bill. Blackamoor dice-wielders roll their eyes and shake their heads at getting the "unlucky" two-spot; superstition everywhere has fastened forebodings upon it. Probably the prejudice against the two-dollar bill results from the ease with which it may be mistaken for and handed out as a one; at any rate, it is the least liked of all currency denominations...
...personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...