Word: totter
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...from shop to shop in Paris. I believe that her son - who was a real man with a man-sized viewpoint - would be genuinely pleased, no matter how many pairs of stockings she bought. Neither his morals nor her own were on such precarious foundations that they would totter under the shock of silk...
...true that Col. Stewart claimed the support of a majority of Standard Oil of Indiana stockholders. But it is also true that the application of Mr. Hogan's reasoning would cause all U. S. business to totter, to go into a panic. It would mean that, in any corporation, the holder of one share would be as powerful as the holder of 10,000 shares...
...This orator must choose a subject upon which the convention holds a unanimous opinion. A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things. The more vague or remote the subject upon which the audience agrees, the nearer to the brink of absurdity will the orator totter in his effort to be impressive. So it was with Keynoter Fess at Kansas City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity. And so it was at Houston with Keynoter Bowers, who combined pedantry with abuse on Republican Corruption. An editorial writer...
...Pilsudski a decade ago was loud in condemning him last week for taking the decisive step at which he has balked so long. Foreign observers unanimously expressed the hope that Marshal Pilsudski had definitely mastered the tendency to vacillating irresolution which has caused the Polish Government to teeter and totter for five months...
Suddenly all eyes returned to M. Malvy. He seemed to totter and to be feebly protesting his innocence with his hand over his heart. Then he shrieked, clutched his left breast and fell in a swoon. He was carried from the Chamber amid genuine pandemonium. He recovered consciousness 20 minutes later, only to faint again. Physicians declared that his weak heart had suffered a shock from which he can scarcely recover for some weeks...