Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Wilson's three daughters, Spinster Margaret and Eleanor McAdoo live. Neither was among the Foundation banqueteers, nor was Mr. McAdoo, who had flown from California to take his seat in the Senate this week. But present was Widow Edith Boiling Gait Wilson (second wife) who chatted and shook hands with another great Wartime leader, pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath...
...Sophomoric piece in the New York Herald-Tribune (and it also appeared in some Brooklyn journals). He became at once a sadder but wiser man. At the next conference the student showed him the news-paper clippings of his work, asking for a new grade. But the English instructor shook his head sadly, saying, "There are editors. . . and editors...
...Vidal got his first real job. He made a point of working in every department, learned the business from bottom to the level of assistant general manager. Also he made two fast friends in the company: Publicist Amelia Earhart and General Superintendent Paul ("Dog") Collins. In 1929 a merger shook him and Paul Collins out. But before that happened they had hatched the best idea of their careers-a short airway over a heavily traveled route with frequent schedules and low fares. They sold the idea to Philadelphia Socialites Nicholas and Townsend Ludington who backed them in Ludington Lines between...
Next day, like a startled old lady, Mother Earth kept on trembling. There were aftershocks in Baffin Bay. In Panama, 17 shocks disrupted communications, shook clown a few ramshackle houses, scared natives. The third day, the Lindberghs, asleep in the Azores, were roused at 3 a. m. by more shocks. The fourth day there were temblors in Portland, Ore., in Italy's Abruzzi region on the Adriatic Sea. At last on the fifth day old Mother Earth seemed to have calmed down...
...Sewalls were F. F. C.'s (First Family of Chicago) and proud of it. But old Granny Sewall, remembering pioneer days, log cabins, the Great Fire, plain living and hard work, shook her head at some of the goings-on of her descendants. The Sewall bank was booming; they all had plenty of money and little to do for it; even before the War gave them an excuse to run wild, some of the Sewalls were slipping from the pioneer virtues. But Granddaughter Sally had good stuff in her; she sympathized with her Granny. Wartime and love...