Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end the teachers had watched a host of speakers shake scolding fingers at foreign dictatorships, had heard themselves nominated for the job of immunizing the nation against emotional propaganda. Thereupon the delegates adopted a resolution urging the President and Congress to "work intelligently, cooperatively and unselfishly for world peace...
...profession as brain surgery, conductors are systematically trained and systematically advanced in their careers. The neophyte, having mastered several musical instruments and taken a complete course in musical composition, enters a conductors' class at the konservatorium, where he studies the symphonic and operatic classics and learns how to shake a stick at an orchestra. Then he graduates. But that is only the beginning. Assigned to the staff of an opera house, he spends years rehearsing choruses, teaching singers how to sing their parts, helping conductors whip scenes into shape. Eventually, if he shows talent, he is allowed to conduct...
...Pole, a circuit court judge named John Prystalski, for his office. Judge Jarecki's reply to this slight was a prompt announcement that he would run anyway, independently if necessary. It was not necessary. Governor Homer's faction, which has long been looking for some way to shake its rival's Cook County dominance, immediately saw in Judge Jarecki the answer to its prayer...
...Fairbanks, who owns a freighter and a South Sea island and who "does what he does when he wants to do it," tries to convince Miss Dunne, highest star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...
...which you are now demonstrating! [pandemonium]. You will all fulfill your oath! (Ja! Ja! Heil! Sieg Heil!) You will ALL fulfill your oath-all of you, from Königsberg to Hamburg and down to Vienna! You do so in deepest emotion. German compatriots- NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN SHAKE...