Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity handout said), bounced into a big, baroque Casino chamber, joined croupiers, cameramen and curiosity-seekers around the first crap table in the Casino's 71 years of existence. Blonde, white-suited Lillian Moore-"one of the 100 most beautiful girls in the world"-took the dice, shook them, blew on them, threw the inaugural roll...
Flashbulbs popped. General Vaughan shook his fist under a photographer's nose and bellowed: "How would you like a punch in the nose?" The photographer suggested it would be a mistake-for Vaughan. "After all," snapped forthright Harry Vaughan, "I am the President's military aide. You guys will want favors at the White House some...
People passing the Tobiansky apartment shook their fists and cursed it. Mothers blamed the Tobianskys for the death of their sons in battle...
...misfired in the fourth. But he never seemed in serious danger, and ran out the final game of the fifth set at love to win his first Wimbledon title, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Then he tossed his racket 20 feet into the air, shook hands all around, embraced the championship...
...Paris-green-covered American Mercury that he edited became an undergraduate bible for the bright boys of the '20s and early '30s. He scorned marriage ("Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too"). But he shook the faith of many an admirer when he married at 50 and said: "I have often imagined that I would be as perfect a husband as a woman could find." Otherwise, as his Chrestomathy proves, he has been consistent in his peeves and gripes through several decades. But Mencken seldom descended...