Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in trouble before, but it had usually found a way out, even during the depression. The late opera-loving Banker Otto H. Kahn, longtime board chairman, used to shake his white head at the losses, say "That's all right, that's all right," and dash off six-figure checks. The U.S. public, when asked, had also rushed to the rescue; once when it was asked to donate $1,000,000 to buy the Met's building, it oversubscribed by $57,000. Yet when opera lovers last week suggested raising a fund to "save...
Cripples and invalids came. "My discovery," Brown proclaimed, "will increase the life span of man to 120 years. Don't worry. My cell also extends the sexual life of man ... It will make old women feel like kittens, and old men potent. I can shake the hand of an asthmatic," said Brown, "and he will be well...
Hunky. Over a magnum of champagne, M-G-Magnate Louis B. Mayer signed up Dore Schary, thus became Hollywood's first to profit from Howard Hughes's shake-up at RKO (TIME, July 19). As executive producer and Mayer's No. 1 man, Schary will direct production of all M-G-M pictures, draw a salary of about $5,000 a week. Punned an M-G-Mster: "Now everything will be hunky Dore...
...Nenni into a common front with the Communists. Only thus, they argued, could Socialism attain victory. In this bargain the party lost its soul and never collected its price. It was defeated roundly in the April elections. What to do now? Repudiate the Red alliance? Stick to it and shake off the moderate Socialists...
...Airport. Along with their wives, Presidents Truman and Gallegos posed for pictures on the new White House balcony. At an official White House dinner, the President presented Gallegos (whom he called Venezuela's "greatest modern litterateur") with the Legion of Merit. Gallegos replied that he was "proud to shake the hand of so sincere and simple a man as the President of the U.S.," presented Harry Truman with six volumes of his works...