Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just want to tell you of an incident that happened while my husband and I were seated at the radio. . . . When it was announced that Mr. Roosevelt was nominated . . . our dear little brown dog Brownie . . . picked up a small rug and began to shake it and run all around the room with it in his mouth, as though he was waving his banner for the next President...
...supercilious ones. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, although Marian Nixon and Ralph Bellamy are the stars instead of Farrell & Gaynor, is in the tradition of Daddy Long Legs and Delicious. Cinemaddicts who would be unable to enjoy watching Marian Nixon ask a horse a question and then seeing the horse shake its head, should remember to avoid Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...
...pole position, Eastman had to battle through a bunched field to take the lead after 50 yards. Close behind him at the turn was a little Pennsylvania man, Bill Carr, who had started in the sixth lane. Rounding the turn, Eastman shook off the pack but he could not shake off Carr. Geared to a quicker stride than Eastman, Carr, who had never before last week run a quarter-mile in less than 48 sec., caught the Stanford man in the last 100 yards, beat him to the finish by a step...
...beaten an acrobatic little Japanese, Jiro Sato. Against Austin, Vines was just as good as he had been against Crawford. Their match was over in 45 minutes, 6-4, 6-2, 6-0. Austin watched Vines's last serve, an ace, go past, then ran up to shake hands. Said he: "I couldn't play against that...
...crowd of notables that swarmed to shake the Rogers hand appeared Henry Lewis Mencken, eating a big black cigar. "Who's going to be Vice President, Will?" asked he. Reporter Rogers favored Charles Curtis. "The Republicans should not show so much race prejudice," ob served Mr. Mencken. "They had an In dian last time. They ought to get a nig ger this year...