Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, an old grisled man, one George Surfin, of Dryden, N. Y., walked up to the President. Said he: "I have shaken hands with Lincoln, McKinley, Roosevelt; now I want to shake hands with...
CONFLICTS?Stefan Zweig?Viking Press ($2.50). Stefan Zweig, talented globe-trotter and literary dilettante, was shaken by the War out of gay indolence at Vienna into mapping out two series of ambitious literary projects which he has since pursued with a vigor and skill that has brought him high rank, before his 50th year, among the authors of all Europe. One series is biography?spiritual portraits (of the type done by Gamaliel Bradford in the U. S.) of Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy (so far). The second series, to which the three stories in this volume belong, consists of novelettes...
After Edward of Wales, 33, had shaken hands with Mr. Kellogg, 70, he asked...
...from Paris the Cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincare. An air of mystery and suppressed mirth prevailed, for M. Poincare was not supposed to know that this luncheon was to commemorate the first anniversary of his present Cabinet and to crown the great labors by which he has restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen had an air so sly as that of Minister of Justice Louis Barthou, who carried a precious package...
Jewish Relief. Although no Jew was killed in Palestine last week, many were rendered homeless by the destruction of their houses; and students at the Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem found most of its buildings unsafe or utterly shaken down...