Word: shake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Philatelic Society assembled in Washington for its convention. An appointment had been made for its members to see and shake hands with President Coolidge. When the convention assembled it voted to break the engagement rather than take up the President's time and endanger his health by such practice...
Although the Presidential Special had no scheduled stop before reaching St. Louis, it halted frequently and the President made extempore speeches from the rear platform and shook hands with all who came near. Mrs. Harding, always by his side, explained that her physicians did not allow her to shake hands, but she wished she might. Little boys, farmers in overalls, railroad workers, all enjoyed the Presidential good will...
...there is a more important difference. The affair at Clark is a conflict of personalities. The affair at Amherst is a conflict of educational theories. President Meiklejohn was brought to Amherst eleven years ago to shake up and revitalize a rapidly decaying College. He was installed as a reformer. And he set about to reform. He had a definite theory of education which he proceeded to put into action. That theory was the theory of education as a stimulus to inquiry and speculation rather than a mere communication of dogma. As it was once expressed by Professor W. H. Hamilton...
...This is a problem that has for years distressed the Indian Bureau of the Department of the Interior. Grave cases have been reported to the Bureau of individuals who possess half a dozen dogs and hold on to them with a tenacity that no amount of moral, suasion can shake. Now it is announced that the braves of Fort Berthold Agency have decided to get along with two dogs per Indian, and to put, as well, a dollar tax on every dog within the legal quota...
William D. Upshaw, Congressman from Georgia: " In a speech at a Baptist Church in Manhattan, I denounced ' wet Democrats of New York who shake hands like Herod and Pilate over the crucifixion of the 18th Amendment...