Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some Persian, and some the flowers of no land, riot softly on the ground, or hang from delicate vines. The background is salmon-colored. Around the central field runs a quiet legend. In the middle all js speed: bugles blow there, stallions leap, and the beards of riding Khans shake out like flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border reposes. Two figures with wings recur regularly among the budding leaves; their costumes proclaim them to be Persian genii; among their motionless ranks a gnarled ornament appears in various forms that is not Persian...
Handshaking. "Any part of the body which is given unusual exercises adapts itself to the conditions. I shake hands with so many people every day that my hand has become toughened and it does not get tired nor subject me to any discomfort...
...surprised if they saw a great island covered with seals like flies on a lump of sugar. Perhaps they would get stuck if they had to walk for five days without food through a world of blue ice lighted by stars as big as melons. Perhaps they would shake, as he was shaking now, if they saw cold fire creep across heaven and throw, with a noise like tearing silk, luminous sheets of red, yellow and green into a void without bounds, over a world without warmth, through a great, glittering night without a dawn . . . by jingo...
...county champion. They are paid to make things seem exciting and in pursuance of their calling they resort to many sad devices so that when at last a moment occurs which, by its inherent humanity, is dramatic and blood-stirring, they have nothing left to say, and can only shake their heads, and tap out fustian phrases with their fingers. Last week such a moment occurred at Forest Hills...
...believes that if men are able to grasp fundamentals in thorough fashion, it is an easy matter then to shake them together into definite line-ups. In other words, he intends to develop his material first and name his line-ups when he knows what that material amounts to. This is not a radical departure in coaching, but a twist new enough to cause the focussing of a certain amount of attention on his efforts next spring...