Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swart, bullnecked, purposeful, Premier Mussolini followed his orchids, strode on board, shook the hand of Sir Austen warmly, kissed the hand of Dame Chamberlain. A steward bustled forward. Cocktails of Italian vermuth in each of which reposed an olive were lifted high...
...statesmen retired below, conferred for two hours. Finally they emerged, shook hands again, and all present embarked upon a tender for the Premier's yacht. There luncheon was served. There the statesmen conferred again. Some thousands of cheering Italians who lined the shore and spied upon the Dolphin and the Giuliana wondered, as did many a newsgatherer, just what the Premier and the Foreign Secretary said to each other. Straining their ears they heard distinctly "God Save the King" rendered by the Giuliana'a band...
Instantly a 40-foot flag of gasoline flames shook itself up from the gully, furbelowed with black. Captain Fonck and Lieutenant Curtin were found struggling to their feet, 20 yards from the inferno they had escaped before it burst. The flames had their way for hours. Then, certain cinders, a Koran, a crucifix, indicated where Charles Clavier and Jacob Islamoff had burned behind jammed doors. There was no angry inquiry as to why the "dolly" had not been finally tested. Pilot Fonck, Lieutenant Curtin, Designer Sikorsky and his aids, were all exonerated by the coroner of criminal negligence. Some "fanatics...
...Sweden, up to the Golden Gate. Gunboats came but the tars deserted, to wash gravel. Troops came, and the officers dropped sabres for shovels. The Law was a huge farce; in that roaring young state there was only brigandage and a snarl of paper in the courts. Yet Sutter shook the whole country and enriched lawyers for a generation to come. He sued California for 25 millions, the U. S. for 50 millions. Years passed before he got his decision. Immediately the gold-world paused in its shoveling to raze Sutter's remnant buildings, to hang his friend...
...popped back cannonball serves, how he outthought Tilden, how with the first ball played he started Tilden on a long run from the backcourt to the net and from baseline to baseline, a run that never stopped until Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their match an hour late. Johnston, the second ranking player...