Word: shake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggested a way out: Fosdick might become a Presbyterian. Harry Fosdick refused; he said it would be too much like making the ministry a denominationally "closed shop." His farewell sermon packed the First Church. The closing hymn was "God be with you Till We Meet Again." He had to shake hands for an hour afterwards...
...Will this latest shake-up prevent a recurrence of these costly disturbances? One can only guess regretfully 'no'-regretfully, because their source, one can't help feeling, will not be removed until Mr. Nelson himself steps down...
...from Brooklyn to Manhattan last week, set up his scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan...
...version of Anglo-Russian relations. He emphasized in a speech broadcast to Europe that Germany was again "flaunting the Red peril." He said that there was a "deepseated wish, or more, a determination to work with the Russians in peace and in the war" that German propagandists could not shake. "Let them reflect for a moment," he said, "upon the common man in Britain and Russia and China, on his way of life ... a spontaneous revolt against anything for which the Fascists stand...
...Tenth Air Force, whose headquarters are in India. Both feuds were connected, because Bissell is also Stilwell's executive in the Far East. The Army last week was anxiously trying to straighten out the row between these three seasoned soldiers. Airmen hopefully predicted that there would be a shake-up that would leave Chennault in command of a separate China Air Force...