Word: shakerly
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...Shaker Heights, Ohio...
From the pen of snowy-haired Ramsay MacDonald, champion shaker-of-hands-across-the-sea, and Prime Minister of Great Britain, has issued a statement in which diplomacy blends with astute perception. The shrewd Scot, who by a graceful and masterly manipulation of Anglo-Saxon heartstrings, by an incomparably dexterous muddling of issues, reached the pinnacle position of British statecraft, displays in his written comment the same piercing analysis and tempered sagacity which gained him his high post...
Along with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's Coney Island Beach and Grant Wood's Arbor Day, one canvas is notably eyeworthy: John Steuart Curry's The Fugitive, in which a terrified half-naked Negro hides against a tree trunk from a lynching mob while two red butterflies drift past his feet...
Science has given housewives the mechanical dishwasher, the tireless cooker, the cherry stoner, the self-agitating cocktail shaker, the cast-iron pea sheller. but not until last month did U. S. housewives have a machine to make cream...
...Vagabond idled over the rail of bridge, concealed from the vulgar gaze by the gathering dusk and by the bulky base of the great salt-shaker pillar. The subway trains, momentarily elevated, flashed by, each square of light framing the back of a head, a neck and a pair of shoulders. Twelve minutes from the South Station, said the Rollo Book, in the misty past when the Vagabond made his first trip to Cambridge. As inaccurate as the catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty...