Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed is the "Sunrise Bridge" (9) from which all distances in Japan are measured. So sturdy was the Central Railway Station's anti-earthquake bracing that it did not shake down (10). The "Hall of the Nameless Dead" (11) commemorates 33,000 victims of the fire. Major Japanese banks: Bank of Japan, Mitsui Bank, Mitsubishi Bank cluster near each other (12), but the National City Bank of New York is aloof (14). Number 13 is the lucky site of the Imperial Hotel, "most popular in the Far East," refuge of Occidentals during the fire, completely proof against mere earthquakes...
...Earl of Balfour at 81 last week in the home of his brother and heir Rt. Hon. Gerald William Balfour. A bachelor to the last, he whispered to his nurse. "Is it the end?" She nodded and he motioned for his valet, Coltman. who came with streaming eyes. "Shake hands." whispered the Earl, and Coltman clasped his master's hand, choking with emotion. "Goodbye, James! Thank you very much for all you have done for me."-such were the last words of the Earl of Balfour...
...help of any good man." Candidate Davis makes much of the fact that he was once a Pennsylvania iron puddler. He likes to return to the Pittsburgh Mills periodically and, before well-focussed cameras, fiddle around the furnaces, get dirty, wash up with "the men" at their trough, shake hands with one and all, smile amiably and good-naturedly...
Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis. Worn out with coughing, his 81-year-old heart gave way last week...
...Francis Landey Patton, President from 1888 to 1902. Upon his resignation, he took up the Presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he went into retirement in Bermuda where he was born 87 years ago and whither he returned still a British subject. Holidaying Princetonians go to see him, shake his thin hand. They must stand very close because Patriarch Patton is going blind...