Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Protests, amazement, stammered eloquence. The president explained that the campaign was not altogether for money-the McAuley Mission also wanted 20,000 new friends. If Mr. Markle gave the whole amount there would be no excuse for going on. Mr. Markle shook his head. He would give $100,000-not a cent less. He told his own story, how he had been blind for a year in 1908, how Christ and a famous German surgeon had brought back his sight. "I don't want people to think I've got all the money in God's earth...
...Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little paper is not facetious. Every week it contains a good solid column by Arthur Brisbane and an editorial by myself. When I do not have time...
...Leopold Stokowski and many another were invited to a reception in Her Majesty's honor at the Ritz, Manhattan. Of the 800 persons presented, a few kissed the royal hand and a few ran around to the end of the line after being presented and were presented again. Most shook hands with the Queen...
...European flagship Memphis; arose before breakfast on the first morning for a plunge in the Leviathan's "Pompeian Swimming Pool" with her daughter Princess Ileana and son, Prince Nicholas; took tea with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in the latter's stateroom; visited the engine-room and shook hands with several minions who had been provided with white gloves against this contingency; was informed by a gallant engine oiler that Rumanian engine oil is best; was presented with what the donors described as "the finest watch in the World" (smaller than a dime) by high seas representatives...
...cabinet, other notables, formally inaugurated the exposition. After the ceremony, he examined exhibits appraisingly, impartially. Standing proudly before their exhibits, greeting M. Doumergue, were such figures of the French automotive industry as Louis Renault, Baron Citroen. M. Farman. M. Doumergue included U. S. stands in his tour, paused, shook the hands of U. S. officials, left the hall...