Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier. At daybreak in Huelva a sleepy police mannamed Joaquin Segovia was stopped by two cars, asked the way to Portugal. Officer Segovia raised his rifle. Without more ado General Sanjurjo hopped out of the first car, shook the policeman by the hand. "I congratulate you," said he. "With only a rifle you forced us to surrender." While General Sanjurjo was being taken to Madrid for trial by the Supreme Court, Premier Manuel Azana began retiring all officers suspected of complicity in the revolt. In frontier towns scores...
...squaw Wapoola. Cherry Creek, alternately dry and flooded, divided the settlement into Auraria City (after Russell's hometown in Georgia) and Denver City (after Governor James W. Denver). In 1860 a bridge across the creek was finished, people from both sides met on the bridge by moonlight, shook hands, made speeches and the name Auraria City was dropped. Since bricks were cheaper than lumber where few trees grew, brick houses soon replaced the rows of frame shacks...
Through this frolicking crowd of plain people in shirt sleeves moved a tall lanky figure extending a friendly welcome to all. His smooth white hand shook many a hard and horny fist. Outwardly he was with this throng but plainly not of it. His blue coat and grey trousers were wrinkled but he wore a necktie. His hair, above a high intellectual forehead, was a silky grey but his pale blue eyes were young, fresh, benign. His manner with the masses was one of studied informality. Yet he was their particular idol, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for the Presidency...
...that handy motto "education-for-all." Rugged Governor Hartley has, however, run things to his taste, notably six years ago when his Board of Regents ousted President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Last week, like a lumberman smashing a log jam, he shook up the university once more. President Suzzallo, now head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, must have watched with interest, for many of the logs that went bobbing away were educational machinery that he had built...
...Poao Kahana-moku of Hawaii, who has been on every U. S. Olympic swimming team since 1912, arrived by airplane for the final trials. Two men qualified in each of the 100-metre free style heats. In his heat Kahanamoku finished third, pulled himself wearily out of the pool, shook the water out of ears, looked gloomily at his muscular legs as if dissatisfied with the black sunburn which he has spent 42 pleasant years acquiring. Said he about his legs: "They were O. K. for 75 metres-after that it was just too bad." Not greatly surprised...