Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cranberry bog, wolf cubs, apple pie, sombreros. His parental cares are lightened by a secret service man who follows his undergraduate son from class to class and within the past few months the "official spokesman" has relieved the president of another responsibility. But he still has to shake hands, and he does it well. Last week he disposed of 1400 lady Republicans in forty-five minutes--less than two seconds per handshake...
...shake our heads over the prostrate form of a weary jester. Next month, perhaps, he will not have recourse to sleeping powders. Perhaps his humor will be spontaneous and fresh--perhaps Spring will offer prolific inspirations, for Cambridge Common is not so boundless
Excitedly the figure in the rawhide boots advanced: "You mean Black Jack* Pershing. Well, shake hands with your old private that used to peel potatoes for you. Yes, Sir, General-in the Sioux Indian campaign, buck private in Seventh Cavalry at Fort Niobrara. Black Jack himself! Yes, sir, all the ducks you want. I'll be danged...
...Owen Wister and Arthur Train, Poets Conrad Aiken, Hermann Hagedorn, Witter Bynner-these and many a plain John Smith and Tom Jones whose only claims to fame, perhaps, were their selection of one of "Copey's" courses and their attendance upon his Monday nights at Harvard, gather around, shake hands and exchange greetings with the small man who seems to look fondly down on them all from below...
...less than last year. At President Harding's first New Year's reception, a group of I. W. W. came, hoping to be ejected. They were unmolested and allowed to shake the President's hand. This year no I. W. W. were reported...