Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champagne, on the other hand, must submit to indecent manipulations. To render it epileptic they dose it with candied sugar, tannin, brandy, alum. They mix it with other wines. They shake it. They set each bottle rump in air, and they oblige it to spit?and this word is a euphemism?the muck that has settled against the cork. . . . The manufacturers, in spite of all difficulties, finally conquer the undisciplined beverage. They stick a label on its belly, slap a gold or silver plaque on its head, and there it is ready to conquer the world...
...long and obvious lapses." While Negro Shriners strutted, rejoiced over their victory, White Shriners were also rejoicing-for other reasons. They had just completed a week of convening in Los Angeles. It was their fifty-fifth annual convention; approximately 100,000 White Shriners had gathered together to make speeches, shake hands, see sights, enjoy Los Angeles hospitality, after a religious ceremony in Hollywood Bowl...
Scarcely have the powers that be obtained an armistice in the battle of the Ganns before another and even more momentous controversy comes to shake the tents of the mighty. Such issues as reparations, disarmament, and the World Court pall before the present earthquake in America's diplomatic center. Even the most weighty questions of social precedence must give way before the spectral hint of prohibition in the British embassy...
...door and strolled unchallenged into the dining room where President Hoover was alone. There he dropped his fine manner, began to talk rapidly, wildly. Realizing his danger before this stranger, the President conversed courteously with him, humored him, until a guard entered to lead the intruder away. A mighty shake-up occurred among the President's bodyguards...
Much has been said for and against enterprises seeking an idealized brotherhood of nations. But, if it is possible for the host engaged in this form of endeavor to shake off the patronizing sentimentality that at present casts an altogether too holy shadow over such efforts, the underlying economic and political significances may be found to be of some import. The present organization, founded on a sound mechanical basis, has at least a greater opportunity than the confusedly related bodies that surround it, to arrive at a conclusion worthy of the attempt...