Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol-minded, mop-headed Tamiris shook substantial thighs beneath a raspberry-sundae skirt. But this performance was actually a satire on the evils of decadent capitalism. Hanya Holm, disciple of Mary Wigman. led massive cohorts of healthy-looking Backfisch through what resembled a Swedish drill, called the result Trend...
...Fate Andre Malraux told the fearful story of a few days in Shanghai that shook the Eastern world-the period in the fall of 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies and the Chinese revolution ended in a swirl of arrests, assassinations, executions, torture. Malraux's account was fiction, but to Occidental readers it seemed far more real than the wild and contradictory newspaper reports of what happened to the remnants of the Chinese Communists...
...Soviet life, the first to see its army in action, the first to get from its leaders a story of its 6,000-mile "Long March" from Kiangsi to Shensi. As a piece of journalistic enterprise Red Star Over China ranks with John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, tells a story scarcely less sensational...
...Chicago, Leon A. Mitchell, onetime official greeter for the Hotel Sherman, asked $5,000 damages from Commonwealth Edison Co. and Charles Kelly, greeter for the company. Reason: when Greeter Kelly shook hands with Greeter Mitchell in an office building, Greeter Kelly "did violently, vigorously and firmly seize and squeeze with such force that the third phalanx of the first finger of the plaintiff's right hand was broken...
...Cardinal Hayes, the man he got to see was young Monsignor Dineen, the Cardinal's secretary, who said impatiently, "This city is full of begging priests from all over the world ..." and walked away even after Abbe Dimnet proved his identity. Out in the street again, the abbe shook his head, laughed nervously, reminded himself that he was a man of letters of some standing, and walked to the Colony Club, where he was to appeal to a luncheon group of 20 ladies, "all Catholic and all Christian." But because he had an English accent and Irish sympathies were...