Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Visitors at the rate of 1,000 or more a day came to the White House to see the President. Taking precaution of his strength, he gave up trying to shake hands with all of them and allowed several hundreds just to tramp through his office and see him work...
...Evangeline Booth called at the White House and while waiting to see Mr. Coolidge was cheered by several hundred visitors who under the new rule were not to shake hands with the President. The Commander of the Salvation Army obliged them by shaking the hand of each...
...since Kaisers, Hindenburgs, Ludendorffs, Von Tirpitzes and Bethmann-Hollwegs ceased to shake the Fatherland has Germany been so profoundly moved by an individual. The death of Hugo Stinnes in Berlin following an operation for gallstones which was complicated by pleural pneumonia, stirred the whole country to the complete exclusion of all else...
...truth is that the state of mind of the country, far from being hysterical, is as yet almost a state of coma. Instead of the charges being unprovable, the amount of evidence to be brought forward will shake the nation...
...Shakespeare's tragedy in Paris, presents Macbeth, now in Manhattan, seemingly, with all the might of the French Government behind him. He is like Foch at the Marne, standing immobile against the battering thrusts of fate. Apparently up to the climacteric point he has done nothing but shake his head like a lazy, shaggy lion, tossing the blows from him. And then like Foch he charges and turns the tide completely...