Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work was done. Triumphantly the President-Elect left Versailles, saluted by the Garde Républicaine. He motored directly to Paris, directly to the Elysee Palace of President Gaston Doumergue, which, after June 13, will be the Palace of President Doumer, the "gue" being dropped. Doumer and Doumergue publicly shook hands, then retired into the Presidential drawing room and shut the door. Paul Doumer was born March 22, 1857, son of a railway gang foreman at Aurillac. His father died, and aged 14 he went to Paris where his mother did scrubwoman's work and such. He was apprenticed...
...Madison Square Theatre. He claimed to have been the first to sink footlights into the stage. Later he began writing and producing plays with Daniel Frohman. In 1889. Caroline Dudley Carter was sensationally divorced by her husband Leslie of the Little Liver Pills family. Wise theatrical heads shook dubiously a year later when Producer Belasco had the temerity to star Mrs. Leslie Carter in The Ugly Duckling. The show and its leading lady were outstanding successes. Mrs. Carter worked for Belasco for the next 16 years, quarreling with and leaving him when she married again. Thereafter no star, once wedded...
...some logs to the mill to be cut into boards. "The miller claimed the 'slab' and the first board in each log as a perquisite of the mill. Cooper demurred, and finally they clinched and wrestled and both fell into the chute. As they climbed out, Cooper shook himself and said: 'The board is yours...
...Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres. Provisional President of Spain, scratched his unshaven chin and shook his rumpled hair at a group of reporters last week...
...good pre-championship drubbing. He was also supposed to be afraid of Jackie Berg, holder of the junior welterweight title, a Britisher noted for his courage, his windmill style, his ability to block punches with his chin. In Chicago last week, Berg and Canzoneri climbed into a ring, shook hands and started work, Canzoneri boxing nicely and Berg, short-armed and unable to land his dangerous, awkward swings, performing his specialty of chin-blocking. For two rounds Canzoneri handed out punishment. At the start of the third round Canzoneri whammed a left to the Berg chin-block, hit him under...