Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limousine collided with a small two-seater at the gate of London's Hyde Park. Out of the limousine jumped King Alfonso XIII of Spain, unhurt by flying glass. He shook hands with the young woman driver of the two-seater, handed his card to a police inspector, got back into the limousine, sped on to Bucking ham Palace, arrived punctually for lunch with King George & Queen Mary...
...rough and shrubbery of Interlachen Country Club near Minneapolis was last week sowed with pop bottles. Another fatted calf met its death in Atlanta. Throughout the land, professional men shook their heads once more at the thought of the money?$50,000 at very least?which one of them might have made in the next twelve-month if only Robert Tyre Jones Jr., amateur, would not continue to be the world's most mechanical, most imperturbable, most brilliant golfer...
...made him promise to see Marie only once again. Rudolph kept his word. Author Claude Anet (real name: Jean Schopfer), onetime (1892) French tennis champion, collects Persian art, has translated from the Russian Pushkin, from the Persian Omar Khayyam. Other books: End of the World, While the Earth Shook, Ariane...
...ornate President's Room, just off the Senate lobby. Looking down on him from the ceiling was the gaudy optic which guides explain is the "Eye of God" looking down on all that happens in that room. The President was ahead of time. Senators and Representatives flocked in, shook his hand. He smiled, puffed on a cigar, looked happy. Soon these Congressmen and after them the Senators would be out of Washington and then Washington would be a more habitable place...
...attention last week to what was the passing of actually the last French soldiers from German soil. In Germany it was the most momentous hour since the Armistice. Bonfires blazed along the Rhine from Switzerland to Holland. Churchbells rang in towns throughout Germany. In Berlin a battery of howitzers shook the Linden trees with an earsplitting 21-gun salute. The Reich swam in beer...