Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every crossroad the American faces went by, rough-hewn and downy, seamed and corn-silk-smooth; gimlet-eyes, cross-eyes, big blue eyes, dim eyes; mouths wagging, lips smiling. When the train stopped, Mr. Farley said a few words, shook hands with those he could reach: hands bony, calloused, porky, damp, brown, white, black. And the train went on, past the blur of citizens in overalls, store suits, tailormades, in housedresses, straw hats with beaucatcher ribbons...
Lawrence K. Shook 4G, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; A.M. Harvard; English...
...Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved to the U. S. He married Mrs. Madalyn Nichols Taylor of New Orleans, settled down in Manhattan, where he did some radio broadcasting, and in Connecticut, where he tinkered with a Diesel motor of his own design. When he thought about Mussolini...
Possibly inspired by the delectably dissonant tunes of the noon concert heard from the famous Russian bells, Professor Coolidge appeared beaming in the dining hall at lunchtime and shook hands with an estimated 250 persons, including a handful of Wellesley and Radcliffe girls and some startled mothers...
...thin he couldn't sit without a pillow. For 19 years he had worked in the Marcus Hook plant of American Viscose Co., largest rayon manufacturers in the U. S. Three years ago he began to feel sick and dizzy; then "things got kind of smoky." His legs shook, his fingers stiffened into claws, he had "to sit down and slide downstairs," and at night he was yanked out of sleep by terrific spasms of his chest muscles. Finally (Dec. 31, 1937) he left the plant...