Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours (TIME, Jan. 19, POLITICAL NOTES). During the War he had acted as Commandant of the Allies' largest flying school (at Issoudun, France). In the last three months he has made an investigation of Government air bases and air routes. President Coolidge, conscious of all this, shook the Senator's hand warmly, bid Hiram Bingham, Honolulu-born Yankee, a hearty welcome, conversed with him for two hours...
...street car and by the aid of his pedal extremities came Robert J. Taylor, 80-year-old bewhiskered Negro elevator operator, who has carried 15 Governors of Massachusetts up and down the Boston State House. The President, who was one of the Governors whom Mr. Taylor had levitated, shook his hand in amiable recognition...
Gardeners who have attempted to down elusive butterflies with a hose opined that even with the new gun anti-aircraft marksmen will scarcely have it all their own way; shook their heads doubtfully even when informed that the tracer bullets will be visible to a height of 7,500 ft. at night...
After several months of negotiation, the Shipping Board finally shook hands and said: "It's a bargain." Two hundred of its nearly useless vessels tied up here and there along the Eastern waterfront of the U. S. were sold. Those who shook hands (figuratively) and closed the bargain with the Shipping Board were...
...Mexico City, in the high noon of night, sharp, strong shocks shook the earth. Husbands and wives bounded out of bed, bounced their offspring out of bed, fled into the streets clad in night attire. In the middle of the streets the frightened dwellers sank to their knees, prayed for protection against the underground commotion. No damage was reported...