Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would make the journey à pied; limousines were for the capitalists, feet for the honest working men; so off went Edouard, his shoes squeaking under the weight of his corpulence. Great crowds assembled. The Premier smiled. Great crowds followed. The Premier was delighted. Many times he stopped, shook hands, conversed, kissed, parted with common people and sailors. Many times the people cheered; and many times the Premier raised his hat. Then, from a side alley, was heard a noise like the trumpetings of mad elephants. Two hundred Communists, armed to the eyebrows with sticks, swooped upon the Premier, uttering...
...Emperor trembled; the Regent trembled; the Empress trembled; the Crown Princess trembled; the Court trembled; the Cabinet trembled; the Diet trembled; the Japanese trembled; the Europeans trembled; the very buildings trembled; even the trees trembled ; the sea trembled; boats trembled; docks trembled - Mother Earth was angry, shook Tokyo in "one of the most severe earthquakes since the disaster of September last year." One house collapsed...
When rumors circulated last year that the Student Council had appointed a committee to examine into the raisons 'd'etre of the traditional "Harvard Indifference", the College shook with the rhythms of a ribald and not too subdued chuckle. Also appeared a slight atmosphere of resentment. The idea of doing away with one of the most sacredly cherished of all Harvard institutions seemed almost a sacrilege. At which the Council, perceiving that the time was not yet come, gave over its crude investigations and devoted itself to more subtle amusements...
...polls opened. Maine walked in and cast its ballots. The polls closed and the count began. A few hours afterwards the Democrats shook their heads and admitted defeat. For Governor, William R. Pattangall, Democrat, went down by what the final count will probably show to be 40,000 or 50,000 votes before Ralph O. Brewster, Republican. Senator Bert M. Fernald, Republican, was reelected. The four Republican Congressmen were also reelected...
...Haunted House. That strangely combined optimist and cynic, the first-nighter, shook off the lethargy that has consumed him through the mass of inconsequentiality thus far produced this season. He was going to a play by Owen Davis, with Wallace Eddinger in the lead. He relied on the tradition of ably-contrived amusement that these two have reared. He emerged dispirited. The tradition had tumbled...