Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasional shot (which always missed) at young Queen Victoria and her young Prince Consort, Albert.* In the humdrum present, British subjects could scarcely believe sworn testimony in a London court last week that when H. R. H. Prince George went to work in the slummy East End citizens shook their fists and shouted: "Give us food! We don't want royal parasites...
...entered. Bishop Manning stepped to a footstool beneath the scaffolding, preached firmly on the rights of the rector to serve his neighborhood, ending, "I request, and as Bishop I instruct, that this church . . . shall be open for services at such times as he shall direct." Then Bishop Manning shook hands all around, patted the heads of children, said, "God bless you" to one small Negro who replied, "All right" and ran away. Next day Manuel Jesus Roure threatened to sue. charging that Bishop Manning had backed Rector Dodd because both were attempting to make All Souls' "an Anglo-Catholic...
...home and in the evening held a White House reception for the Judiciary. At this levee 2,000 Bar Association members were added to 3.000 regular guests making it the largest in recent White House history. For an hour and 40 minutes the President, standing in the Blue Room, shook hand after hand after hand. Many an exuberant guest, ignorant of White House etiquet, wrung the President's fingers instead of allowing him to do the shaking. The President's hand turned red and began to swell. Jeweled rings cut into his palm and finger tips. The President...
...only one man (Ritchie Mitchell) had mussed his sleek brown hair in many a long battle. Last week in Madison Square Garden, Benny Leonard was wiping stringy thin hair out of his eyes 30 seconds after tough Jimmy McLarnin began to hit him. The pudgy Canadian welter- weight shook his head at the hardest blows Leonard's bowarms could deliver. What was left, at 36, of the cleverest boxer the lightweight division ever knew was knocked down in the second round. In the sixth he could not hold his paunch in, found his legs behaving like Leon Errol...
...insurgent Republican support of the Democratic ticket. At Lamy, N. Mex. in the station crowd. Governor Roosevelt spotted Republican Senator Bronson Cutting whom he had known "since he wore short pants." The Governor invited the Senator up to the rear platform of his private car. Senator Cutting clambered aboard, shook Governor Roosevelt's hand, waved to the crowd, said nothing. Three days prior Senator Cutting had lost control of the G. O. P. State organization to Albert Gallatin Simms, new husband of Mark Hanna's daughter Ruth McCormick, and has resigned as national committeeman. His appearance with Governor Roosevelt...