Word: shrugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice. Harvard will be at home, in a thousand places at once. Some students will lecture their bewildered families on the war, on politics, or on religion; brothers and sisters will laugh at their seriousness. Others will waste their substance in gaiety, while doting parents shake their heads but shrug philosophically, "Well, he's only young once, and he gives the girls such a good time." It's all over in two weeks; Harvard gives and Harvard takes away...
...great Bojangles. The rest of the cast can only be thankful that they have a chance to do something in the first act, for when Robinson comes on in the second, he takes over and all the rest of the cast can do is sit back and shrug. It would be nice to bounce one's grand-children on one's knee many years hence and tell them about Bill Robinson. But the chances are that it won't be necessary, for he'll probably still be dancing then,--and in "The Hot Mikado...
...easy for you and me to shrug our shoulders and say that conflicts taking place thousands of miles from the continental United States, and, indeed, the whole American Hemisphere, do not seriously affect the Americas, and that all the United States has to do is to ignore them and go about our own business...
...have recently been annoyed by long-distance peeckers who watch them at play in their seaside bathing pool near Cannes. Hearing that a tourist agency advertises a special $1.50 boat excursion "to see the Windsors bathe," having appealed in vain to the French Prefect (who said with a desolated shrug, "The Mediterranean belongs to everyone"), the Duke had tall canvas screens put up around the pool...
...standing of the Government department will be even less satisfactory. Is it, so strong that it can shrug off the loss of two of its most brilliant minds and dependable workers...