Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCarl shook his head, overruled Mr. Mellon...
...fervor Herr Stresemann, thrusting that trade treaty sop at the importunate Tchitcherin, stayed not upon the order of bolting for his train. On the platform stood the British, French and Italian Ambassadors to Germany, their faces wreathed in smiles. They whispered into the ear of Herr Stresemann. Then they shook his hand and that of his colleague, Chancellor Luther, who was also going. As Herr Stresemann clambered into his compartment, yet another pair of lips spoke quick and soft in his ear. They belonged to Monsignor Pacelli, the Papal Nuncio, who had come to whisper the deep counsel...
...finals the greenskeeper, committeemen, stewards and various other people who pretended to be, and indeed may have been, officials of the St. Louis Country Club, stuck their heads out of doors and shook them emphatically. For the third day rain was falling. Ducks and drakes was the only game you could play on that course. Next day, though cloudy, was better. The sun and the gallery came doubtfully out. At the end of the morning round Miss Collett was four up. She played the first ten holes in the afternoon in even fours. On the tenth green, when that last...
...turbine" and try it in driving battleships. The Government skeptically observed the plans for a machine which applied the energy of a jet of steam impinging upon the blades or vanes of a wheel to produce the rotation of a shaft to which the wheel was fitted. The Government shook its head and Engineer Parsons returned to Scotland, not unruffled. He had discovered the turbine principle a decade before, had perfected it for small units, was convinced it could drive a ship if built big enough...
There was at the dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back...