Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association that the 1928 football schedule including games with Lehigh and West point and with the Holy cross game shifted to fill the date hitherto occupied by Brown has been definitely arranged. The shake-up in the opponents which the University eleven is to face, Holy Cross and Yale being the only 1926 foes to appear on the 1928 list is in accordance with the policy announced last fall of playing all colleges besides Yale at suitable intervals rather than year after year in uninterupted succession. The most important change effected...
...Honorable Great Lady, thus bedight, partook with her additional 300 ladies-in-waiting of bosat, a beverage then esteemed and consisting, much like the modern "milk shake," of flavored sugar and cream. While she presided, swathed to immobility in riches, the courtiers of Tamburlaine-according to an ancient historian-"would fall down drunk before her; and this was considered very jovial, for . . . there can be no pleasure without drunken...
...such a vital shake...
...amazing, significant, that at Locarno, with Belgium's whole fate supposedly depending on the signing of the Pact, Foreign Minister Vandervelde was obliged to refuse to shake hands with Premier Mussolini. His Belgian Socialist constituents forbade him to take the hand that they considered had oppressed and murdered Italian Socialists. Aside from this incident?hushed up of course?M. Vandervelde furthered Locarno with his uttermost efforts...
...Babeux, for instance, saw in their rather visionary conceptions of a commonalty of mankind the most complete amelioration of the social evils that beset France in the 18th century. With the gradual disruption and decay of the French monarchy and the Church in France there had come a surprising shake-up of society on an economic basis. Capital and capitalists became powerful factors in the realm, with a corresponding depression of the lower classes. Socialism as conceived by these early philosophiers was an ideal whose realization would remedy the defects of this system, and as such it has been advocated...