Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes in. He says, 'Where you been? Every day I go to your store to ask you census but you ain't there.' I explain I got a store at Harvard [Ill.] too. Then he get abusive. He get hold of me by shirt and shook me and I shook him." Girman's version: "Rosselli didn't want to answer any of the questions and finally took after me and chased me from the shop...
Chief Engineer William Sutcliffe mostly shrugged and shook his head. The only definite things he would say were that he had used all twelve of her boilers and that some day she would outspeed the Queen Mary. But about the crossing he was modestly...
When Hollywood laid its golden fingers upon Mr. Steinbeck, the great realist and his following sadly shook their heads. You couldn't expect to reproduce Toilers of the Land in the gloss of Klieg lights. Agricultural proletarians on a budget of a few hundred dollars a day simply wouldn't look human. There were limits even to what Hollywood could...
...grueling two days. On the first, beginning at 10 in the morning, he had spent two hours with excitable, athletic Count Galeazzo Ciano, who lingered 15 minutes over his farewells and shook hands four times in parting. He had held a press conference at which, with great politeness, he had told correspondents that he had nothing to say. At 5 o'clock he had walked the 60-foot stretch of marble floor in the Palazzo Venezia that visitors must cross to approach the desk of Benito Mussolini. His hour's talk with Il Duce (who wore civilian clothes...
Miss Laurie shook her brunette head of hair in doleful pity. "I'm afraid graduate students have a lot to learn and undergraduates could probably teach it to them. At least those I used to know could have." Miss Laurie ventured that six years in the same environment regimented students, whereas "there was a freshness and originality in the techniques of some of the younger fellows from the South, from the West, and from Brooklyn...