Word: shaken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often crucial. The white gentlemen, exponents of the "New South," urged Mr. Hoover to buttress and continue the revolt against the "black machines" of the South, to cultivate the "lily-white" movement by which it is hoped to Republicanize permanently many a Southern Democrat whose party faith was shaken by Rum and Romanism...
Plans were made to interpolate in the Hoover itinerary after Lima a call on landlocked Bolivia. The Maryland was to halt off Antofagasta (Chile) and receive Bolivan officials on board. Chile, shocked and shaken by an earthquake (see p. 19) awaited with double eagerness the arrival of the famed U.S. disaster-doctor...
...petulant stenographer's pout and a pair of plump small legs do not carry Nancy Carroll through as the bit of sweetening in "Manhattan Cocktail," the current cinema at the Metropolitan. This movie is shaken up from one of those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest...
...Denver, they have buried the hatchet, brought out the peace dove, shaken hands, spoken words of mutual praise, given up things for the common weal...
Rumania has been ruled by Tycoons of the Bratiano family since the foundation of the Kingdom (1881). The Royal Family has merely reigned-a family of puppets-despite the petty intrigues of Queen Marie. Therefore the Kingdom was shaken in its deepest political foundations, last week, when the last of the Tycoons, Vintila Bratiano, was forced to resign as Prime Minister...