Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacations granted to Harvard students, Christmas and Spring, the Express is again called to the forefront as undergraduates shake the dust of college towns off their feet for a flying trip home and back with often only time enough for a couple of days in the old home town...
...each stop Governor Landon tried to say something of folksy local interest. At Lexington, Neb., for instance, he recalled that he was in the hometown of Footballer "Swede" Berquist who used to knock holes in the Kansas line. Promptly Mr. Berquist surged forward out of the station crowd to shake the Landon hand as Lexingtonians whooped with pride, A driving rainstorm beat the Landon special to Omaha by a few minutes. Leaving his private car, the Kansas Governor climbed up on a baggage truck and shouted above the din: "This is a grand welcome and this rain is the finest...
...said: "I drew a leg at this table. I always seem to draw a leg at every table that I sit at." Back aboard the David Livingstone he made 16 rear-platform appearances while crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred upstretched hands at once. It was found later in the cinders of the road bed. At Cedar Rapids he announced again that he would accept President Roosevelt's invitation to confer on Drought next week, declared: "No individual and no organization should meet this problem from...
...this time President Azafia was perhaps personally less radical than President Roosevelt. After long talks with him, cigar-chewing U. S. Ambassador Claude Bowers called Azafia the greatest living Spaniard, compared his ideals with those moderate motives which inspired George Washington and the American Colonists to shake off English Kingship. In Spain the Right knew what to think when Republican Azafia proved unable to suppress political violence and murder even in the streets of Madrid, made the philosophical assertion: "Violence is deeply enshrined in the Spanish people. The time has not yet come for Spaniards to stop shooting one another...
...XIII the finest network of concrete roads outside the U. S. and then omit to spend the few additional millions on advertising which would have made them teem with tourist cars. His Majesty personally did more to encourage tourists than has any other King or Emperor, would stop and shake hands with American Express Co. groups of 200 and more...