Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better-known Savoy Operas, the Civic Light Opera Company has learned to be lusty in choruses, whimsical in patter-songs, and sentimental in arias. They can shake the deck of the good ship "Pinafore," snapping their fingers at a foeman's taunts, along with their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. Or, transformed into Pirates, they can sally forth to seek their prey and help themselves in a royal way. But as Gondolieri, whose life is "loving and laughing and quipping and quaffing," they miss the right note of delicate gayety. They sing "Buon' giorno, signorine!" like the police...
...shake of a sheep's tail Boss Curry Hipped out the name of his man, telephoned him to hump himself to the Garden to receive the nomination...
...from the plantation to make commuting impossible. His leers mount in ferocity and effectiveness and Mary Astor succumbs, loses her self respect, gets sloppy. Harlot Harlow discovering that she has taste if not morals, becomes contemptuous of them both. The Harlow taste at length infects Gable. He tries to shake off Mary Astor, gets shot by her as the belatedly suspicious husband drops in. Jean Harlow tells him his wife fired in defense of her virtue. The Raymonds kiss and leave on the next boat, leaving Jean Harlow to nurse Gable back for their mutual hearty enjoyment...
...disgorge withheld interest on State funds in 1925. On his ten-day showboat cruise "to inspect waterways." Big Bill had brought along the top of the State Republican ticket, the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and treasurer. He and they stood in line on deck to shake hands with the muddy-footed electorate. Filing awkwardly past, the electorate was then shoved onto a government barge towed alongside, encouraged to dance to phonograph music. At Alton there was a small charge for drinking water...
...unpunished. . . . The United States loudly professes to champion righteousness and humanity, but what can you think when you review its policy toward Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua and other Latin American nations? Nowhere in the society of nations do we find the pacific spirit which we call Japanese 'kultur.' We must shake our fist in their faces...