Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested some songs, Happy was agreeable. "You git us a git-tar," he said, "and we'll have a singing today." A past master at gladhanding. Chandler greeted all constituents as "Brother," or "Honey," glibly filled in the proper names as his local frontmen supplied them: "Good to shake your hand, Mrs. Lewis. You know my daughter married a Lewis, honey. Say hello to Mr. Lewis for me." Whenever possible, he applied the personal touch: a fervent handclasp, an embrace, a clutched arm, a kiss...
Once a year in Guatemala, everything that is revered, respectable, powerful or pompous gets powerful but highly irreverent ribbing. The occasion is the traditional Eastertide Strike of students at the University of San Carlos, one of the most merciless lampoons anywhere. Starting weeks ahead, the students shamelessly shake down politicos and merchants for expenses, adding to the fund receipts from a scurrilous vaudeville show and a scandal sheet that flouts all libel laws. With the $25,000 to $30,000 they collect, the students build big floats that are, in effect, moving stages for the outrageous and often obscene skits...
Almost any audience larger than a twosome has an attraction for California's Governor Goodwin Jess Knight, who travels tirelessly around the state with his big right hand ready for the shake and his vocal cords for the speech. But last week "Goody" Knight conspicuously stayed away from a banner Republican gathering in Southern California. Reason: the guest of honor was Vice President Richard Nixon, a fellow Californian whose hand Governor Knight prefers not to shake...
Followers in the Streets. The Labor Party's trouble, observed the Manchester Guardian, is that it has "a leader who does not lead and a follower who does not follow." When it came time to operate, the Labor leadership's hand began to shake a little. It was not easy to pare down the clever and glamorous rebel from the coal fields of Ebbw Vale. While he offends the solid, burgherlike Labor leaders with his wild speeches on foreign policy and scares away perhaps 1,000,000 middle-of-the-road Britons who might otherwise tend toward Labor...
...hole in my shirt and my brother's wearin' my underwear and my mother's got her thumb in some slob's soup . . . And you're not here because you want to help us . . . You're scared to death of us . . . you shake in your pants every time you pass us on the street." Without hokum, without false sentiment or a spurious stiff upper lip, Crime shaped a rare portrait, well worth reshowing, of the desperate young who are already down...