Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week these harangued ones arranged a ceremony for their "Bishop," presented him with a flag, a Bible. Judge Elbert H. Gary shook his hand. Secretary of State Kellogg, Owen D. Young sent telegrams. Said Wilkinson: "Men of Wall Street and Minnesota, men like Mr. Gary and Mr. Morgan, street-sweepers and passersby, I thank you very kindly...
...hand shook as he brushed his eyebrows. It was here, the moment he had waited for. What had made them do it now, he wondered. It must have been his last deal; yes, it was that last big Coca Cola sale that had taught them that he was the greatest salesman who had ever gone forth from Atlanta. They had thought they would surprise him but he was ready for them. He knew just what he would...
...strokes of a freight locomotive's pistons. Slattery danced out; he lifted his hands from his sides to flick the sultry visage of his opponent; he mocked and mowed, smiling his smile of a derisive faun; his body flashed with spite. Berlenbach lowered his head. When struck, he shook it from side to side-a bull perplexed by dragonflies...
...holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City who had turned in a score of 156. Piddling old fellows snorted when they heard of this, and spat their bile into the Club's brass spittoons; others shook their heads over their sour milk, declaring that it was a wonder that a man who went to Havana every winter like Mr. Snare could get around a course at all; but the more upstanding of medalists?they who had staunch freckles on the backs of their hands, and little...
...they had done at Philadelphia and London last year, at Minneapolis the year before, bigwigs of the legal profession shook hands all round-last week at the 49th annual meeting of the American Bar Association, at Detroit...