Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Help, help," yelled Bernard D. Shea '41 as he danced around his room on the fifth floor of Thayer yesterday, trying desperately to shake off a tenacious squirrel which held his index finger firmly in its teeth...
...said that nothing would be done until after the New Year holidays, and by that time M. Tatarescu may conceivably have been able to line up support from other Rumanian parties for a coalition Cabinet. It was even possible that the Rumanian Nazis (who are said to shake down Mme Lupescu for such large sums-by threatening to assassinate her-that she has ironically been called their biggest backer) might team up in coalition with His Majesty's Government. In any case Rumanian election returns seemed to prove that the recent visit to Bucharest of French Foreign Minister Yvon...
...come to a standstill after six weeks of intermittent effort (TIME, Nov. 8), this was the first time Bill Green and John Lewis had met face to face since an unpublicized meeting in a Washington hotel seven months ago. They mumbled greetings to each other but did not shake hands. Later when a reporter asked Mr. Green if it had been "Bill" and "John" again, Mr. Green, whose manner with the Press is not one of his strong points, flushed, gulped and trailed off with a weak "Well...
Landscape- Returning to his upper Fifth Avenue home after an energetic survey of polling places, Mayor LaGuardia felt a tug at his coattails, turned to shake hands with an 8-year-old admirer who cried: "It's a landscape. LaGuardia...
...Masses and The New Yorker together, shake hard, Gallicize, move back a century to the time when to be Left in France was to be Republican, and you have something like La Caricature and its daily successor Le Charivari, the periodicals by which Honore Daumier earned 30 years' living, six months in jail, and undying fame as an artist. Beginning in the second decade after the Napoleonic Wars, hardworking lithographers including Traviès, Gavarni and Grandville filled these sheets with caricatures of Bonapartist reactionaries and canting bourgeois. Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless...