Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Heaven and a rushing mighty wind filled the room. This tongue that never spoke another word but English began to magnify and praise God in another language. I was speaking in Chinese, and it was the sweetest thing I ever heard in my life. The power of God shook my being. . . . The healing of my body was complete...
...steal her son. The moppet was rescued by a mysterious young man who became devoted to him. This rescuer, too, turned out to be the Argentine millionaire. At this, the lovers penetrated the veils of mystery that had enveloped them. "In one stride he reached her. His fingers shook as he tipped up her face to the moonlight. He uttered a short sharp cry. His arms swept her close...
...Patton's dismay when his friend Eugene Sellers took the stand to testify that the box he saw Mr. Patton carrying away from the Carpenters' did not seem like a cigar box to him. It was too small and light. Furthermore, Representative Patton's nephew, Norris Shook, had declared: "Hell, no, that wasn't cigars." And several days later Representative Patton told Friend Sellers: "Well, I bought one of those baby bonds." Afterward, Nephew Shook had hinted: "Uncle bought a bond and it wasn...
...dental parlor chain of "Painless Parker." Chief target remained the 1,274 stores of food chains, Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Mac Marr, Pay'n Takit, but also hit were such chains as Woolworth, Kress, Newberry, Penney, Walgreen. The State Senate thumped the bill through 34-to-4. Then California shook as with an earthquake. Radio, billboard and newspaper advertising propaganda fought propaganda. The Hearst Press turned against the bill. All California's frantic energies were concentrated on getting Governor Frank Merriam to sign or to veto. A hundred chain store men, 900 independents, with bands, banners, slogans marched...
...humming I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...