Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were stunned, blankly staring at the verdict. Down his white, sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow for their friend. Oilman Doheny, crimson with rage and chagrin, shook his fist at the bench and screamed: "That damned court-." Mark Thompson, Fall attorney, went white and limp, slumped to the floor, lay there unconscious for ten minutes before physicians could revive him. Bending over him was Frank Hogan, chief defense counsel, ashy white with disappointment. Cried Lawyer Hogan: "Tell...
Crowded out of the spotlight of Eastern football by the Yale-Dartmouth and Pitt-Ohio clashes, the Harvard-Florida game was however very significant to followers of the Crimson. Harvard shook off the gloom still hanging over from the Dartmouth rout and showed itself to be a rejuvenated eleven in setting the Alligators...
...defense the Blue was using an eight man line a great part of the time and it proved to be an effective method of checking the Marsters runs. Poor Al only shook himself loose on about three occasions all afternoon. But this form of defense proved to be pretty poor protection against a careful forward passing attack as put on by Marsters and company in the third period. If Harvard can continue to improve overhead it certainly should have enough opportunity to capitalize on its skill. TIME...
...populous as bustling, industrial Toronto. But of Ottawa's 126,000 citizens a full 1,000 turned out as a mass committee of welcome marshalled by Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King. Canadians made a great point of the fact that Mr. MacDonald and Mr. King shook hands as absolute equals, colleagues under the Crown. Loud pealed the carillon in the great Gothic peace tower of Canada's Parliament House. Smartly Scot MacDonald was driven to be received by the personal representative of George V in Canada, vice-regal Viscount Willingdon (salary $50,000*). After luncheon chubby...
...grave Chinese, eager U. S. intellectuals, a brown woman with gems fastened in her nose, a plump white woman wearing a jingling Colombian Indian costume. Kermit Roosevelt dropped his eyes against curious stares. Natacha Rambova, white turbanned and weighted with gold invited the avid to her studio. Esoteric prattlers shook the Professor's hands and looked for cheese wafers to nibble. There were no refreshments...