Word: shruggingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suis trap modeste," said he with an elegant shrug, "to boast of the quality of our rum, but taste, gentlemen, taste...
...With a shrug of resignation the dispatcher at Le Bourget airdrome switched off the floodlights which had blazed through the night. From Tempelhof weary newsmen dragged themselves off to bed. At Croydon the telephone operator made a last effort to raise remote stations, silent because of Whitsunday. At Floyd Bennett Field, New York, pessimism deepened to despair. It was 40 hours since Jimmie Mattern had rocketed off the mile-long concrete runway, and there was no word of his landing. His fuel must have run out at least ten hours...
...socially minded General' I hear some of you saying with a doubtful or even scornful shrug. Yes, indeed, there has never been anything more social than the old army with compulsory service, where the poor and the rich, the officer and the rank & file, stood together and showed the spirit of comradeship in the miraculous deeds of the World...
...enough to profit on a small margin. They point out that tobacco has averaged 19? per Ib. for the past 20 years, is not likely to rise far above that. As for the fairness of taking advantage of advertising-increased cigaret consumption while not advertising themselves, they only shrug their shoulders...
...last of the Mayor's two sessions on the stand. Publisher Block, according to testimony brought out at an earlier hearing, had been interested in a Brooklyn concern which planned to sell tile to the city subways. The Mayor affirmed the revelation of his amazing generosity with a shrug of his shoulders, called it a "beneficence," said that he always took his gains home in cash and put them in a safe-"not a vault, not a tin box." Publisher Block's gift, instead of damaging the Mayor, appeared to place a trump in his hand. Having begun...