Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the earth shook 90 miles from Los Angeles-at dreadfully hot Bakersfield. Eight or nine shocks did little or no damage...
...Light of the World," emerged again into the limelight he was gravely greeted by the solemn figure of President Hindenburg in tight broadcloth coat and high silk hat. Less formal was an immediately subsequent greeting administered by Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia Otto Braun, who violently shook the Amir's hand. Meanwhile Old Paul von Hindenburg presented a bunch of orchids with ponderous gallantry to Queen Thuraya...
...make-up of this year's team, but, if he can return to the form he displayed two years ago. Coach Cowles thinks that he will have no trouble in making the team. When questioned as to the chances of Hennessey, Van Ryan, Jones and Doeg, Coach Cowles shook his head, and said that all played a good game, but that they would not be good enough in international competition...
Santo Domingo, found in 1496 by Christopher Columbus who "with fragile caravels of discovery opened new routes on unknown seas," shook hands with Col. Lindbergh on his birthday. With the above quotation President Horacio Vasquez likened the visitor to a new Columbus. Among the exhibits prepared for his reception were effigies of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower two stories high with a miniature airplane swung between them. U. S. Minister Evan E. Young entertained the visitor with a chocolate cake sprouting 26 candles...
...productions of Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Pelleas. The new ballet had cavorted around in better style than the old one; but there had been an orchestral slump, in part produced by the new sunken pit. In the business offices, there was no waiting for esthetic failures. President Samuel Insull shook the box-office records together and discovered that the 107 performances on the home stage would cost the guarantors some $450,000. This would not deprive the Chicago Com-pany of its new twenty-million, forty-two-story opera house, to be ready season after next...