Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...less proficient at the game of "getting by," and they are therefore set up as examples of poor spirit. Yet their cases, if they will teach others a lesson, will have been worth while. The average student has to have facts knocked into his head; most of us merely shrug our shoulders at these two incidents and thank our stars we are not the unfortunate ones. We are even apt to idolize the men who have been discharged as martyrs to the cause of loafing...
...Cohan used to sing through his nose and glorify his country. Hodge talks through his nose, but he, too, glorifies the country--the rural regions of it. In this play he is, as usual, just a plain, easy-going country chap, who can faze a multi-millionaire with a shrug of the shoulder. That's probably why Boston likes William Hodge better than Broadway likes him. And that's why, in spite of a rather vapid vehicle, William Hodge will continue to talk through his nose at the Majestic for eight or ten weeks--unless influenza seizes...