Word: shakerly
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...cocktails, he will be calculating in disposing of them. There will be a few, a very few persons that he will deem worthy of admitting to cocktail fellowship. And even with them he will feel a niggardly reluctance gnawing at his heart as he distributes the dividends from the shaker. --The Graduates' Magazine...
...Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," and "The Marble Faun," Hawthorne was descended from William Hathorne, who came over to New England with Governor Winthrop. Both this first American ancestor and his son John were men of mark in the little colony. But they were also infamously noted, one for causing Shaker women to be whipped, the other for his cruel treatment of the Salem witches. John Hathorne, it is credibly reported, was cursed by one of the victims of his cruelty, and popular superstition always believed that prosperity left the Hathornes from that hour and on account of that curse. True...
...Haight L. S. has a short story in the March number of Munsey's Magazine, entitled "A Shaker Romance...