Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Cross line-up has undergone a complete shake-up since the game with Brown last week, in which the Purple was defeated 12-15. After this hard game, and the tilt with Fordham in New York last night, the Worcester team ought to be ready to give the Crimson a lively battle...
...Year's day, President and Mrs. Coolidge entered the Blue Room of the White House and began to shake hands with the members of the Cabinet, the Director of the Budget, the diplomatic corps headed by its dean, Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, Ambassador from Spain, the Justices of the Supreme Court and subordinate judges, Senators and Representatives, officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, patriotic organizations and plain citizens to the number of 3,130.* Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Sargent were the only members...
Colonel Mitchell heard the verdict read with calmness. His wife stayed close by him. When it was done, numbers of persons rushed up to shake his hand. After a moment he turned to the Court and exclaimed, "Why these men are my friends." He went up and shook the hand of General Howze. The General said, "Goodbye, Billy!" Then the other members of the Court put out their hands to be shaken...
...years ago in "Sally," when he played a comedy part along with Leon Errol, has invented a number of widely used and expressive phrases Among them are "So's your old man," and "Press the flesh," "Give me five," and "Mitt me," the last three all invitations to shake hands...
...return next day with a dynamiting crew and a trench mortar to raze to the ground and destroy utterly the madhouse of raucous voices, fetid air, stale perfumes; the shouldering, stupid, perspiring women who just want to know "how much this is"; clerks who indicate, by a sad shake of the head, that the English language is a closed book to them. Other customers, less bloody-minded, merely dream of saying to the cashier when they pay for a 30c purchase, "Oh, by the way, how much is this store worth?" . . . "About $16,000,000 a year." . . . "Here...