Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Realmleader (a modernized euphemism for King), was met on the station platform in Rome last week by Il Re Vittorio Emanuele and II Duce Benito Mussolini. Der Fuhrer gave the Nazi salute, II Re the military salute and II Duce the Fascist salute (see p. 23). Afterward the German shook hands with his Italian hosts, and then Premier Mussolini effaced himself, slipping out and driving off in a small car to his office...
...left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned for advice to Grandfather Dr. Morris Hershman. who discovered the tumor. Dr. Hershman shook his head sadly: "As a physician, I believe nature should be allowed to take its course. As a father, and as this child's grandfather, however, I am inclined to the other side-that of trying to save the baby by giving it the only chance that science knows-an operation...
Said Mr. Eccles, an original proponent of the spending program: "Mr. Ford didn't clash with me. I guess he said he didn't agree, and shook his head in dissent." Said Hall Roosevelt: "There was nothing that smacked of commercialism in any way. ... In fact, it reminded me very much of a family conversation at Wayside...
...added attraction, a Manhattan nightclub with an eye for publicity introduced to its patrons last week a zebra (see cut) with a hangdog expression, accompanied by Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. To the great delight of photographers, the zebra, after posing wearily for its picture, shook itself from head to foot, tripped Tamer Buck, sent him sprawling to his knees...
...following Goodman's triumphal appearances in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME. Jan. 24) and elsewhere. Drummer Krupa decided that he was too important a figure to thump modestly along as Goodman's sidekick, decided to form his own band. Experts, pained of late by his exhibitionism, shook their heads dubiously; but last week on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, when Drummer Krupa's new orchestra got into their groove, 5,000 pop-eyed adolescents raised the roof...