Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal. Hiram Johnson is in the Senate to represent California, but his eyes squinted with emotion, his white crest shook with vehemence, as he asked last week for an investigation of bituminous coal mining in Pennsylvania...
...chest!" Senator Walsh believed the witness and shook him by the hand when the hearing closed, as did Senator Kendrick. But before Son-in-law Everhart left Washington, two other facts were established: a) that Sinclair waved aside the stock certificate for his third of the "Tres Rios Club," telling Everhart to put it away for him at Tres Rios, b) that the "Tres Rios Club" never materialized. All that happened was that Father-in-law Fall paid off some debts on the old homestead. Commenting last week on his son-in-law's so belated testimony, Father...
...east. Fogs blotted his landmarks. Once dodging beneath the clouds he noticed a pair of antelope and dipped close to the earth to race their frightened flight. Soon he lost his way; sooner again he found it and sank to safety at Maracay, Venezuela. He motored to nearby Caracas, shook hands, gave thanks for fervent reception, listened to Spanish speeches, prepared to hop to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands...
...Coolidge Special, slumbered deeply up the Keys and through Florida to Jacksonville, where he got up and called for a breakfast beginning with Spanish melon. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was at the Jacksonville station, (with Mayor John T. Alsop and many a big fruitgrower. The President shook their hands, looked around, re-entrained for Washington. The Coolidge Special's cinema that evening was Uncle Tom's Cabin...
Through the wide portal of a sumptuous residence in Tokyo a slender Pole strode jerkily. Ushered into the presence of his host, he shook respectfully a crinkly parchment hand. Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The clipped and pomaded poll of Prince Tokugawa, "the Japanese Otto Kahn," a lineal descendant of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") who ruled Japan from 1603 until the present Imperial Dynasty was restored...