Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saved for those who will enjoy it most-small boys and girls. For them has been created the five-acre fairyland, guarded by mammoth wooden elephants, which Mrs. Dawes dedicated last week. Children may wander past pleasantly fearsome caves and pirates' dens, meet a fairy princess, shake hands with a Bagdad giant 7 ft. 7 in. tall. There is a miniature zoo filled with baby animals which, by contract, must be replaced if they show signs of growing up. There is the World's Largest Marble, seven feet in diameter, in a gleaming house made all of marbles...
...four years has won 62 consecutive matches. When North Carolina's tennists last week completed their fifth tour of Northern colleges they had beaten Navy, Maryland, N. Y. U., Army, Yale, Harvard, Brown. The score of the Army match. 6 to 3, was the closest. This helped to shake the familiar alibi of the Northern colleges -that the Southerners have had two months more practice when they meet. Last week North Carolina's tennists made the alibi seem even more inadequate when they finished their 1933 schedule by winning the Southern Conference championship for the fourth year...
...section of the people take the oath." Up from his seat rose peppery Opposition Leader Cosgrave. He cried bitterly. "You began the civil war-we ended it!" Through the mind of every Dail member echoed the civil war's whole story of murder and treachery, still potent to shake Irishmen with dismay. Loudly, tossing his scraggly forelock, de Valera shouted above the murmuring. "We are ending it here today, thank God!" And a storm of applause and relief swept the Irishmen of the Dail. -He can declare it any time he likes without fear of British reprisals...
...President of the U. S. is a free & easy party politician, addicted to undignified jollities and speeding in his automobile. When he blows out a tire at 98 m.p.h., he gets concussion of the brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...
...were on the tag-end of the line. Waving Chairman Pomerene aside, Al Smith declared: "Just a minute, gentlemen, just a minute. Here are two lovely girls still in the doorway. One of these might be the one who signs the checks. Come on in, ladies. I want to shake your lovely hands...