Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groveling social and religious lepers of Mother India are her famed 50,000,000 Untouchables with whom there is nothing physically the matter and with some of whom King Edward, when Prince of Wales, shook hands, to their incredulous delight...
...Iowa tax was not the only worry the companies shook off by withdrawing from the retail business. For years-and during Depression especially-their wholesale and retail outlets were overbuilt, requiring them to place more emphasis on the volume of gasoline sold than on the profits made. By turning dealers loose more or less on their own, they automatically started shaking down an artificial market into a natural one. They were also pleased to think that by creating a somewhat diminished host of little fellows out of a regiment of cogs they were aiding in the Decentralization of business, favored...
...Literary Digest editor was interviewed at a late hour last night at the Transcript building. Asked to comment upon the returns, the editor merely shook his head sadly and stated crypticly, "It's astounding, simply astounding...
Approaching the rear platform in mock alarm, the tubby old editor cried, "Shoot not this old grey head," threw up his hand in a hearty Hitler salute (see cut), climbed up on the platform, shook hands while proud Emporians laughed and cheered...
Harlem sages shook their heads dolefully last week over what they regarded as one more failure of private capital to cope with the social and economic problems of Negroes. From the beginning the Dunbar Apartments rocked precariously on deep tremors of Negro sensitiveness. Rentals were planned at $9 per room per month, to enable Negro workers to support their families without doubling up in the usual Harlem manner of two or three families to an apartment. The rooms were small, the construction poor. To meet maintenance and amortization charges the rents were finally set at $11.50 to $17.50 per month...