Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unitarians disclaim any desire to "shake the fruit tree" so that some fruit may fall on their side of the theological fence. But they join with Conservatives in a plea that Liberals should be "honest with themselves", and should not "play with words...
RUSTLERS' VALLEY?Clarence E. Mulford?Doubleday ($2.00). Clarence Mulford is worth 20 Zane Greys, if only because he holds no brief for his great open spaces. He does not let his watering eye wander for chapters over the mesas, nor does he shake his horny finger reproachfully at the jazzing East. He hasn't time. His heroes are always too much on the move?solving mysteries, pulling guns, cracking jokes, riding pintos, drinking redeye, winning heroines, proving that the accusations against them are (in large part) false? anyway exaggerated. This book follows the accepted pattern. He gives you what...
...Subcommittee decides in favor of recognizing the Soviet, Mr. Borah, not Mr. Lodge, will have to shake hands with those proletarians...
...result of this shake-up was a top-heavy team, or one with the preponderance of strength in its forward line. While the Tiger defense was thus materially weakened, the revised front put Van Gerbig in a position where he was more able than ever to raid the opposing cage on an instant's notice...
Senators Lodge, Curtis, Harrison and others of all political groups surrounded his desk to shake him by the hand...