Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deputies in an extremity of panic, the 65-year-old "Lion of Lorraine" was again called to form a government. It is astounding history that as his own Finance Minister, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré restored the shaken credit of the French Treasury within six months, recouped the fall of the franc, finally stabilized it on a gold basis of $1 = 25.52 francs...
...story about a circus performer who loses his skill when his female partner breaks up the team. Long ago it passed from being simply stale to an honorable status as one of the great stencils of picturemaking. Long research has proved that there are two ways in which the shaken fellow can be redeemed: 1) by the return of his original partner; 2) by another girl in the company who has loved him all the time but whose sacrifices have never been appreciated until the night when, as he lies drunk, she takes his place on the tightrope. Dangerous Curves...
More and more stringent grow the drink laws of teetotaling Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico. Those who believed that his temperance campaign would be merely a "plan of persuasion and education against drink" were shaken by a bill he signed last week. By it the police were empowered to close instantly and forever any saloon, cabaret or liquor shop where "scandalous conduct" is reported. Worried publicans bit their nails in anxiety over what the police might consider "scandalous conduct...
...Shaken by their joint experience as jurymen in Poet Masters' earlier Domesday Book, seven representative men of Le Roy, Ill., resolve to confess the inmost secret of their lives. The confessions, mulled by the coroner, complicate his decision to marry Arielle, young, beautiful, mysterious. Her mystery resolves itself into insanity. The coroner devotes the rest of his life to guarding Arielle. Undaunted, he insists: ... I believe, and ride By this belief vast wings from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth...
John Pierpont Morgan returned to Paris and the Second Dawes committee last week, having shaken off a cold by cruising the Adriatic in his black yacht Corsair with the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, April...