Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adviser and proctor, to which he can apply for personal aid. And he needs all of these, for at last night's meeting Dean Leighton spoke of a Freshman, who a few years ago, reported to the Hygiene department a nervous wreck after his hour exams. He shivered and shook, but he was finally brought back to normal and then learned he had received two A's and two B's as his marks...
Abruptly he awoke. His hand was stiff and numbed; he shook it. He pulled up the clothes so they were straight and faut...
...pale, willowy roles, last week turned flamboyant in a ballet the troupe is doing for the first time in the U. S.-Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or. As the golden cock which warned silly King Dodon whenever disaster impended (which was often), Riabouchinska leaped frantically, shook dazzling tail feathers against the bizarre, glaringly-colored backgrounds of Nathalie Gontcharova. With the often repetitious opera airs of Rimsky-Korsakov cut to ballet length, Le Coq d'Or made good colorful sense, its choreography by Michel Fokine a happy blend of pantomime, burlesque, Russian boot kicks...
...asked to define swing, if he could. He didn't ponder very long over his reply. "Swing is an emotional element that happens after the music has stopped," he observed, "and it happens in both the audience and in the players." The Duke stopped speaking for a moment and shook his head sadly, "They's a lot of people who don't know anything about...
...coming. 'Like trying to pass cars on the top of hills. On that road in Cuba. On any road. Anywhere ... I mean how things are. The way that they been going. For a while yes sure all right. Maybe with luck. A man.' He stopped. The captain shook his head at the mate again. Harry Morgan looked at him flatly. The captain wet Harry's lips again. They made a bloody mark on the towel...