Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, speak!" An emotional murmur ran through the black crowd. President Hoover spoke: "The friendship of our part)' for the American Negro has endured unchanged for 70 years. . . . Our party will not abandon or depart from its traditional duty toward the American Negro. ' Then President Hoover shook hands with his fellow Republicans, was photographed with them. ¶While President Hoover was laying the cornerstone for' the new Post Office Department building on Pennsylvania Avenue, one Edward Wells, war veteran, yelled "hurrah for Roosevelt!CPolice clapped Veteran Wells in jail, said he was drunk...
...receive the Democratic nominee "because he's Wet and I'm Dry." When amid hurrahing thousands the Roosevelt automobile passed City Hall, Mayor Porter sprinted out, ran up to the machine, stuck out his hand, panted: "III want to welcome you to Los Angeles." All smiles, Governor Roosevelt shook his hand, said: "Thank you. I'm glad to be here. It's a great day and a great crowd...
Eight doctors shook their heads. The Mahatma, they said, had "begun his fast with little fat and lived on muscle." After breaking his fast he was "still in the danger zone and might suffer a stroke of paralysis...
...shook hands hesitantly, then suddenly embraced and knelt together by the altar...
Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein, greatest of Soviet cinema directors, returned from two years in Hollywood and Mexico last spring, found to his consternation that he could no longer make serious films such as The Armoured Cruiser, Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World. Instead, last week Comrade Eisenstein was filming belly laughs...