Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down on his chest turtlewise. His shoulders sagged forward, his oar dragged. In a bit, he was rowing well again, but the race was over. Gliding along four lengths ahead, Cambridge spurted at the end, came within a minute of the record (18 min., 29 sec., established in 1911), shook hands all around as fresh as fresh...
...clock she was guest of honor at a high green tea of the Henniger School of Music; next day she gave a concert at the Little Rock High School (which she used to attend when she could steal a morning from the Pastor's housework) ; she shook hands with everybody at a reception given in her honor at the finest hotel in Little Rock. Governor Terral said...
...resented his words even as he resented her existence. She believed devoutly in a purgatory, but she thought that there was as much room there for Poodles as for Cartracks. The rest of the congregation did not. And their glances at poor Cartrack told her so emphatically, finally. Cartrack shook the dust of the Ninth Incorporated from her feet and went her way. She had changed her mind. Purgatory was not imminent and the night had a thousand stars. She repassed the drugstore with intrigue in her pekinese profile...
...shook his finger in Mr. Upshaw's face: "You prohibitionists are narrow and intolerant and I with many others resent the invasion of my personal rights by people like you. I ask you to follow God's plan. You can't improve...
...amiable Russian. He forgot that many of his bourgeois Lyonnaise constituents invested heavily in Russian bonds before the War and now regard all emissaries of the Soviets as agents of the Devil. In a word, M. Herriot invited M. Rakovsky to an official banquet at Lyons that night. They shook hands and M. Herriot strolled on, still sucking-warm whiffs from his Italian briar...