Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apes. When one animal had food and another in an adjoining cage had none, the hungry one would beg by thrusting his hand through the bars. Often the other chimpanzee would share his food, especially if the two were well acquainted. Sometimes, however, the ape with food would simply shake hands with the other, or turn his back, or become so uncomfort able that he would retreat with the food to a distant corner...
Refusing to meet Elliott Roosevelt the local airport, Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair growled: "I won't shake hands with of the Roosevelts." The President's second son said he thought Mayor McNair "a surly sort of cuss...
...what this department is trying to accomplish. The ideal solution is of course the perfect combination of good teacher and good research man. It is a little hard on the keen and hard-working student to have to hold the test-tube in which the Administration is trying to shake up this perfect solution. The experiment must produce results soon, or the complete disintegration of this field, which at present is no more than a dangerous possibility, will become a reality...
...Shake? In London last week His Majesty's Government suddenly seemed to lose interest in the White Paper which it had taken the lead in negotiating. This lightning change occurred after Adolf Hitler sent to London by his special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week a six-page reply to the White Paper, the gist of which was that Germany rejected its terms in toto and that the Great Powers must mark time until the Realmleader should send them his proposals for what is to be done about Germany's rupture of treaties. Ambassador von Ribbentrop explained that...
...most delightful pose, perhaps, is the naively coy. When she threatens her lever, for example, with marrying the big, fat Italian baker who sells her his wares for a pat on the cheek, he very understandably insists that she come along with him to the Dolomites. But she can shake with active fury, as when she finds a letter that her lover-now husband-thought he had destroyed. The pathetic death of her child is largely the product of a deft, gentle touch in the writing. But it would never to so simply affecting if it were...