Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilitate the recording by R.C.A. Victor, the audience was requested to refrain from applause between numbers. Restraint was broken at the close by over five minutes clapping, as Woodworth shook hands with Koussevitzky. Only one chair was overturned; only one book had fallen to the floor. The records will not be ready for sale for at least three months...
...great debate on President Roosevelt's proposals to reform the Judiciary and, incidentally, to alter the Supreme Court, last week burst prematurely open in full Senate. First Tennessee's windy McKellar, then Arizona's courtly Ashurst, with interpolations by thunderous Majority Leader Robinson, shook the air with preliminary salvos. Reason: even before the historic Supreme Court Battle of 1937 began, the Administration was losing ground...
Workers up on the bridge watched the crash with horror. "The whole bridge structure shook when the net broke," said one. Peter Anderson, working just above the platform, watched his brother's body spin and twist down and away. Workers raced along the bridge seeking life preservers, found only fire extinguishers. Bridge whistles stopped all work and everyone looked down at the Coast Guard boats circling below...
Flying from his post at the University of Alaska, Scientist Otto William Geist put up at a little roadhouse two miles down the highway from where the glacier's runoff water joins the Delta. "The roadhouse shook perceptibly and we could hear the distant moaning glacier . . . for all the world like a gigantic dredge." Nearer to, the groaning, booming and thundering was even more awesome. "The glacier is bifurcated. One fork is moving into the other, grinding and crunching at a point five miles back. The intersection is the scene of a giant upheaval. . . . Three days ago we could...
...clock one evening in Detroit's Hotel Statler, John L. Lewis shook his bushy head and sat up in bed to take his medicine. His secretary put a spoonful in his mouth. Mr. Lewis swallowed and made a face. He had influenza. Shortly a man left the sickroom. Newshawks in the corridor crowded around him asking, "How are things going?" The answer was curt: "Things are getting hot." To newshawks patroling the corridor all evening it seemed that the heating took a long time...