Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile and hurried over to watch the Lobbyist take off with a fresh load. Smiling like a boy, stepping quickly with excitement, the old gentleman looked as though he wanted to fly too. But he was not asked and it was not until he took off his hat to shake off mud and gravel whirled up by the Lobbyist's propellers, that newsgatherers spotted him as 87-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. He walked back to his car, where his wife was waiting and exclaimed: "It was thrilling! Simply thrilling...
...Albert Hall, applauded the new and yet familiar sequence of sounds. Just what it meant no one could be very sure, nor did Mr. Baldwin stop to explain. Instead he plunged to a ringing conclusion: "If in Great Britain our work for Democracy should fail, our failure would shake the very fabric of the universe...
Captain Dollar plans a celebration of his own. He decided that when the President Polk got to San Francisco he would go on board with his wife, look the crew over, shake hands with the passengers, eat dinner on board. There have been ceremonies like this in the past and after dinner there have been speeches in which Captain Dollar's officials have expressed the things the officials of any successful man usually express in his presence when there is some kind of an anniversary. But possibly, into that dinner on the President Polk, there will come, as there...
...another sermon he described the scene which would take place when he arrived in Heaven. First he will shake hands with Jesus and thank Him for coming to the world and for calling Billy Sunday to His work. He, Billy Sunday, will then say, in case his "hunch" bears fruit and he dies before Mrs. Sunday: "I left Nell and the children down there on earth and I'd like to hang around the gate here to meet them." Jesus, Mr. Sunday thought, would reply in these terms: "All right, Bill, just sit down there. They'll come...
...alter all the plays of Shakespeare, to make the lines and the costumes up-to-date, it can't be done. We tried it with Hamlet for four nights when we played in Cleveland, but we found that nothing was gained and much lost. In every work, Shake speare has created a background and an environment which, if taken away, destroys the greatness of the play. For instance. 'Romeo and Juliet' requires the romance-breathing Italian atmosphere, while the more blatant, boisterous plays would not be out of place in any country but England. This we found...