Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious to find some of this sort of putty in the middle of a university. Your education may confuse you, it may mislead you, it may shake up your ideas and turn them upside down, but one thing it wouldn't be expected to do is leave you blank and malleable...
...preferably with two heads. Neither must be attractive"). Through it all, Red has been miserable. Now things are going so well, he doubts if he'll ever get out of the band business. Says he: "It's like gumbo in the spring. You just can't shake it off your shoes...
...Ziegfeld bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs, two bears, six ponies, a herd of deer and several cockatoos). This exotic domesticity was frequently punctuated by Mrs. Ziegfeld's magnificent tantrums, because Flo could not shake the habit of falling in love with beautiful women...
...every whistle stop he appeared on the back platform, amiable and chummy, to pass the time of day with the little crowds that gathered. He flourished no political banners, viewed nothing with alarm. He waved to his friends, signed autographs, clambered down to shake hands with the air of a man who really liked people, and liked to meet new ones...
...James G. Elaine lost wet, Catholic New York-and thereby the nation-when an ill-advised supporter rashly labeled the Democrats the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." It is political legend that the Republicans' Charles Evans Hughes lost California, and the nation, to Wilson by failing to shake the hand of California's potent Senator Hiram Johnson...