Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ladder in the executive office lobby. "General" Brown carefully picked his way around it. ¶ President & Mrs. Hoover gave their big "gold braid" reception to the diplomatic corps. Hands shaken: 1,494. With a "Hello, Dolly!" and a "Hello, Alice!" Mrs. Edward Everett Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth also shook hands, made up their social precedence feud. ¶ Last week the Federal Farm Board reported thus on its wheat & cotton stabilization efforts: "The outcome was not all that had been hoped for." Never the-less President Hoover asked Congress to give the Board another $150,000,000 to continue...
...Lieutenant Nicholson came to join him, Roberts found out the reason: his second-in-command was now first with the lady. They became mortal enemies, but then there was a border uprising. Nicholson was badly wounded, and Roberts brought him in at the risk of his own life. They shook hands and agreed the woman was not worth it. On leave together (by now they were inseparable) they met her again, and she cold-headedly but hot-bloodedly set them at each other's throats...
Years later Roberts, now a military attache in the U. S., ran across Nicholson, a broken cinema extra. Once again they remembered they were Englishmen, shook hands...
...President laboriously shook hands with 3,000 delegates to his conference on Child Health & Protection. Then he made them a speech concerning which Newsboxer Will Rogers later commented: ". . . just about his best. . . . He has never posed as an orator, but he said a lot of things that an orator would like to have said...
Sculptor Salemme dutifully applied a plaster figleaf as a poultice to outraged sensibilities. The members of the art committee viewed the amended Robeson, sadly shook their heads...