Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After White House receptions at which he shakes thousands of hands, President Hoover goes directly upstairs where is waiting for him a basin of antiseptic diluted in hot water. Into this the President plunges his red swollen hand to relieve the ache. Last week the White House secretariat announced that the President would hold no more receptions, shake no more hands. "To greet so many visitors presents too great a task for the President at such a time as this when official demands occupy every waking hour...
...Backstage in her dressing-room her godson, one Jonathan Rinehart, 2, became involved with her make-up boxes, completely daubed himself with eyebrow-pencil, lipstick, rouge. After the performance, when Signor & Signora Gatti-Cazzaza and many another person came to congratulate her, Maria Jeritza made each and every one shake hands with 'little Jonathan Rinehart...
...round of amours. But with all the world to choose from her choice narrows down to her sister's husband. She finally succeeds in seducing him. Lucile discovers Timothy's infidelity, but soon after bears him twins, forgives him. He is only too glad to shake off desperate Marietta. She, now entirely hopeless, is put out of her troubles when her taxi skids into a dray...
...gave up the idea of rational balloting. If a city managership, such as Cincinnati now has, could be established, a vast improvement would be undoubtedly made. At any rate, it will be interesting to see to how great an extent the combined Seabury and financial report bomb will shake the foundations of Tammany Hall...
...compared with the fast game which has sent the Crimson through a difficult schedule with considerable success. They are reputed to play an open, hard-checking game, and possess a forward line which has excited much favorable comment all over the country. But if the University skaters can shake off these invaders, and then follow with wins over Dartmouth and Yale, there will be no dispute as to the claims which they will hold forth on the collegiate championship of the country...