Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live with her. The brothers meet in the hall of Nana's house. They start to draw their swords. But since the point of the story is that Nana, although troublesome, is nice, they do not use them. Nana inconspicuously shoots herself. Dying, she makes the two Muffats shake hands. ". . . I was born," she says, "all wrong...
...left its stamp on him. So had heart disease. For his opener in Calvary Baptist Church he drew an oldish crowd of 2,175. His sermon was long, rambling. There were few antics on the platform, fewer "Amens" from the congregation. After wards only six people went forward to shake hands with...
...country's leading leg-show prima donua, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "I like my work very much and although I have many movie offers, I'm afraid I wouldn't do as well on the screen. I've decided it's better to be a big shake in the kootch business, than a little wiggle in Hollywood...
...exception of such competent plot-tanglers as Mary Roberts Rinehart, S. S. Van Dine). Though murder stories have long been the main meat of a solid minority of U. S. readers, the quality of the domestic supply has been fortified by English importations. But no longer can oldsters shake their heads over the departed glories of Edgar Allan Poe. In Dashiell Hammett the U. S. has again a first-rate writer of crime stories, as indigenous to his country and his day as Bret Harte was to his. This week Hammett fans are racing each other to the bookstores...
Speaking before the National Conference on Students in Politics, Secretary Wallace did not neglect the old temptation to shake his finger at the colleges, at those who direct them, and at those who are studying in them. In succumbing to this temptation, Mr. Wallace has not avoided its usual corollary of general and unfocused abuse. The straw men of football overemphasis and college dances are laboriously set up, and laboriously knocked down again. But in the conclusion of his address, Mr. Wallace showed that he has gone a stage beyond; he believes that the youth of America is instinctively persuaded...