Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusade against oppression. It is simply in accord with the weak and vacillating policy, following the mob rather than leading it, which characterizes American journalism in times of great crisis. Perhaps the NRA may succeed; perhaps it may fail. Until something definite happens, however, editorial pens will shake warily with every tremor of public opinion, and, like the biblical character, blow neither hot nor cold...
BOXFIRE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace (§2.50). Like many another champion of sweetness & light. Authoress Canfield cannot refrain from hitting her strawman adversary below the belt. In Bonfire her enthusiasm leads her into such palpable fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom...
...that, ah, that was too hard. The bridgebuilders had hydrophobia, a condition unusual in bridgebuilders, and calling for unusual measures. Eureka, they would build the bridge on dry land! Did one but object that such a bridge would not span the river, the masters of the scheme should shake their heads wisely and murmur, "Mahomet!" So the river will be brought to the bridge...
Because the white man, one Phineas Mackintosh, was admittedly guilty of debauching native girls, fair-minded Britons stormed in protest and when the young chief left his native village for temporary exile the wives of white settlers rushed forward to shake his hand-a tribute to native rectitude unprecedented in the annals of South Africa...
...rapid-fire changes during the week preceding the game were necessary but they didn't make for a coordinated club. The department that felt the effects of this was the running attack and more especially the interference for the carriers. Only on one or two occasions did the team shake runners loose for gains. It was generally recognized that the Crimson had no consistent ground-gaining power. The Bates line was strong, however, and the statistics show that Harvard dented the forward wall for 239 yards, a creditable showing for any team...