Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throne room the Bey, flanked by his three sons, and M. Daladier, followed by his staff, shook hands ceremoniously. His Highness listened to the Premier promise France's "continued protection" of the Bey's domains. The Bey's Minister of the Pen read in Arabic this cordial reply: "All Tunisia will, if need be, group itself in support of France." Then His Highness decorated the Premier with the coveted order of Aned el Aman, usually given only to royalty...
...Oddly we were not introduced by name; we just filed along, shook hands with Mrs. Roosevelt, her brother and her niece . . . and passed along a corridor with two Negroes serving punch (nonalcoholic, I think) in the big ballroom. The first eight feet of the ballroom was crammed with the stag line of surplus young men. These young men varied enormously. Mass observation showed that only one in 20 wore hair lotion and that about one in ten had his hair cropped like a convict. The editor of the Tailor and Cutter would have burst into tears over...
Hitler-"Ah, my friend, if you had seen me at Berchtesgaden. I took him by the lapels. I shook him like a plum tree. I spoke coldly of destroying London and Paris...
...list of bloodless conquests.* The Essener National-Zeitung announced that the Rumanian Nazi-shooting had been ordered by a Jewish and Masonic camarilla which included friends and relatives of Mme Lupescu. When 2,000 more Nazi-backed Iron Guardsmen were arrested in Rumania, Adolf Hitler and Carol Hohenzollern- who shook hands at Berchtesgaden a few weeks ago- had definitely parted ways...
While parents of his schoolmates demanded Chris's exclusion from the school and farmers' wives shook their heads over "that Simpson boy," Chris was taken to the University of Michigan's Neuropsychiatric Institute clinic for four weeks' observation. According to Clarence F. Ramsay, superintendent of the Children's Institute, Chris is typical product of a home where there has been neither parental love nor discipline...