Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kalish went on tour. Shy, roundheaded, soft-eyed and massive, he shook hands gently with mid-western art groups and, rolling up his sleeves, showed his big muscles to anyone asking about them. "Michelangelo was strong, like me," he said. "You have to be strong to do-these things. ..." In Cleveland his Christ, one of the most widely advertised pieces of sculpture in the U. S., was exhibited. Many expressed approval. Buyers-were few. A middle-aged lady, struck by its strong religious content (which, she explained to a reporter, particularly appealed to her because of family troubles encountered...
Willie Hoppe saw a friend in the second row, and on his way to the table he stopped and shook hands-with his left hand. To use his right would have dislodged the poise of the fine muscles there. The table stood on a carpet in the middle of the ballroom. He began to play with confidence and a measured rhythm. From four sides of the room the faces of the crowd, banked in rows, in the shadow, in the airless heat, watched him without moving. This was an important evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline...
...this thing so far." When Risberg got through, the accused players spent four hours denying everything he had said about them. It was true, they said, that the White Sox had paid some money to Detroit, but that was "as a reward for beating Boston. . . ." Donie Bush shook a fist in Risberg's face. Eddie Collins, with a catch in his voice, said the story was "all a damned lie. . . ." Risberg smiled. The players dropped cigaret butts on the carpet. Commissioner Landis withdrew to consider his decision...
...was?and his voice shook with pride when he said it? a Corsican. His grandfather, his own father's father, had been a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! His surname, once Buonfiglio? "good son" in feud-loving Corsica ?had become gallicized into Bonfils. He had attended West Point but left hurriedly. Corsicans, cousins of Napoleon, resent discipline. He had come West, flash and dapper, intent on a killing; and now he was already a legend. He was the Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That...
...Steel Record. Last week at Furnace No. 6 of the Carnegie Steel plant at Duquesne, Pa., there was surcease of work. Men and officials hurried about, grinned, shook hands with one another, for they had established a new record of pouring steel. In 24 hours their furnace yielded 1,035 tons, better by 22 tons than the previous record, long held by the Thomson works at Braddock...