Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin John Insull, gaunt, long-nosed brother of Athenian Samuel Insull, was persuaded to leave his $20-a-week boarding house in Orillia, Ont. last week and journey 86 mi. south to Toronto to be arrested. On arrival he was introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The State of Illinois had added to the charges of larceny and embezzlement for which he was arrested last October, the new charge of "theft by bailee." Released on $5,000 bail he returned to his boarding house in Orillia to await a formal extradition hearing...
Though he was in England, apparently in disgrace, during the "ten days that shook the world" (Nov. 7-17, 1917), as best-informed British expert on Russia he was considered indispensable. Early the following year he was sent back again as head of a special mission, to establish unofficial relations with the Bolsheviks. His job: "to do as much harm to the Germans as possible, to put a spoke in the wheels of the separate peace negotiations, and to stiffen ... the Bolshevik resistance to German demands." His complicated and delicate job was made harder by the muddled policy...
Passing through the Metropolitan's narrow stage door Scotti managed a smile for photographers who waylaid him. He shook hands gravely with hulking Giulio Gatti-Casazza who had made his debut as manager of the Scala in Milan the night Scotti first sang there 34 years ago. Then he went upsteps to a dingy dressing-room, locked the door, took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that...
...East 65th Street and took up a defiant stand before the brownstone house of President-elect Roosevelt. Being photographed on the steps of the house were five Senators and six Representatives, Democrats all, who had just arrived from Washington for a party conference with their national leader. The Communists shook fists, hooted, yelled. The Congressmen beat a quick retreat inside the Roosevelt home. The police with many a fisticuff and nightstick thwack cleared East 68th Street. All was again quiet when Mr. Roosevelt and his visitors settled down comfortably in an upstairs study for a heart-to-heart talk...
...sleeve which would not be "quite so painful" as upping the normal rates. Majority Leader Rainey pooh-poohed the idea of passing any new tax legislation at the present session while Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee spoke of it as a "last resort." The Democratic position shook down to this: If President Hoover signs a beer bill, increased income taxes may not be necessary; if he vetoes it, taxpayers can blame him for added burdens...