Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate hearing at which Partners Thomas Lamont and Russell Leffingwell gave tedious testimony about financing after the U. S. entered the War. Finally Mr. Morgan expressed his disappointment. "I guess we are in for another dull day." Before catching a midday train back to ' Manhattan he shook hands with Senator Nye and his fellow investigators...
When Pianist Artur Schnabel announced that this year in Manhattan he would play the 32 Beethoven sonatas, skeptics shook their heads, wondered how even Schnabel would dare to challenge a public with a dose so tremendous. The cycle at Carnegie Hall would require seven stiff programs, one a week for seven weeks. Pianist Schnabel is not a glamorous figure, but a stubby, square-headed little Austrian who stalks woodenly on stage, seats himself leisurely at his piano, waits for quiet, proceeds to play as if he had no audience. When Schnabel decides on a program, his invariable comment...
Since M. Laval is of the Moderate Right, the Socialists & Communists exulted. Cried Socialist Leader Leon Blum: "We shook the Radical Socialist plum tree until Laval fell...
...plant, never bumping a machine or a workman or missing a door. So thoroughly aware is he of what goes on around him that he frequently says. "I see that that machine has been replaced." or. "I see that this lathe needs attention." Most of the automotive engineers who shook hands with him in Detroit last week had an uncanny feeling that their new president really could see them...
Socialist leader Leon Blum joyfully said that the Left Wingers "shook the Radical plum tree until Laval fell out." In judging the conduct of Laval during past months it appears that he never was really up in that plum tree. He was merely hiding behind...