Word: shakings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dignity & Fun. At his first platform appearance, in St. Louis, the President wore his air of no-politics as jauntily as his iridescent blue tie. Waving his hat and grinning broadly, he clambered down to shake hands with several score welcoming bigwigs, received a huge Danish pastry from a delegation of A.F.L. bakers (with the admonition from a spectator: "That's bad for your figure, Harry...
...trouble was partly a confusion of words. Everyone talked about "depression," "recession," and the new favorites, "readjustment" and "shake-out," as if they all meant the same thing. They...
...have traveled considerably over this broad land of ours and everywhere--except here--a milk shake is a milk shake. I object to this up-grading to a fancy status denoted as "FRAPPE," which (including the French name) costs more than the original product. --G. W. S., Nieman...
Only at Harvard is a milk shake a glass of flavored milk...
Eliot's inter-changeable lines throttled the Winthrop running attack in the other contest and were effective enough on at least two occasions offensively to shake their backs loose for touchdowns. The first score was made early in the opening period with Dick Coe carrying on a weak-side reverse, after a long punt by Greeley and consistent gains on the ground had brought Eliot to the Puritan 10 yard stripe. The Mastadons struck again in the fourth period when George Strout spurted through a gaping hole in the Winthrop line, then ambled 30 yards to score. Although unable...