Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beings who converged on a wooden shed covering the shaft of Sunday Creek Coal Co.'s mine No. 6. Men, women & children hurried, hurried, their faces set, their eyes wide with foreknowledge that what every miner fears had happened. As they raced to the shaft-head, the earth shook beneath their feet again-another murderous, man-trapping, mind-shattering explosion. The racers were friends & relatives of 238 men in the mine. First to arrive manned the shaft elevators, went down into darkness. Tense minutes passed before they brought up more than 100 frightened, lucky men who had been near...
When newshawks showed Lavine's book to New York's Police Commissioner E. P. Mulrooney he smiled, shook his head. Said he: "I deny positively that anything like that goes on in the New York Police Department...
...last week observed a careful neutrality while factions of his party struggled excitedly over the issue (see p. 16). Dry leaders reminded him of their assistance in his election two years ago, implored him to reward them now with a resounding declaration in their behalf. But the President only shook his head, told them voters would have to settle the question for themselves without any White House guidance...
...this, as in all Soviet post-revolution cinemas, propaganda is paramount, though more subtle. It is a one-actor show as opposed to the mass-action of Potemkin, Ten Days that Shook the World, Old and New with the people's awakening centred in the phlegmatic, stupid, finally violent figure of the Mongol hunter. Valery Inkizhinov, a Mongol by blood, is a capable tool of Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival...
Sued. Tom Mix, onetime film actor, now a Sells Floto circusman: for $13,000 (about one week's salary), by one John Berress, Minneapolis auto dealer. Charge: Mix, drunk, pounced upon Berress, shook his fist, threatened injuries...