Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Utah's Thomas shook his head. "There is no precedent to guide...
...newsreel of the U. S. Navy and the four Princetonians variously stating their case to the public. One steps forward to say: "We want the world to know that whether on the football field or in life, Princeton men can take it." Through the hip-and-thigh farce that shook Manhattan audiences with glee glimmers human comedy, warm and amiably observed. The Princeton boys are sly and expert parodies of undergraduates. One sings a burlesque of a Triangle Club song with typical undergraduate ingenuities...
...some boys are reported to have made to Russia." When smug Philadelphia friends called him a "Bolshevik"' and when his first wife divorced him in 1923, Bill Bullitt married the widow of John Reed, the U. S. Communist who went through the Russian Revolution, wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, died of typhus in Moscow and was buried with highest Soviet honors in the Kremlin wall. The new Mrs. Bullitt, an out-and-out Red. appeared in Philadelphia in Russian costumes complete with high boots. Before Mr. Bullitt divorced her in 1930, she encouraged him to expose...
...nose cost half a million dollars. When the story broke, Bishop Johnson said of the Post "Denver is the only town in the world where the main sewer enters every home." When a Senate investigating committee had kept Bonfils on the stand for three hours, he stood bolt upright, shook his finger at Senator Penrose, shouted "The Denver Post has the largest per capita circulation in the world!", and would say no more. POLLUX...
...Japan at some seasons this is true, but in all parts of Japan the Army is recruited chiefly from among the peasantry and the Army takes care of its own. Last week Army pressure, which has shaken enormous "gifts" for peasant relief out of the wealthy families of Japan, shook probably the biggest philanthropic plum in Japanese history out of the Empire's richest family, the stupendous banking, industrial and trading House of Mitsui which in normal times owns or has under charter a trading fleet as large as the entire mercantile marine of France and has been vastly...