Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fault," said he enigmatically, "not his." What "Uncle Arthur" meant, what every M. P. and most well-informed Londoners knew, was that the delay was really the fault of His Majesty the King-Emperor. Stubbornly, and to the huge embarrassment of his Labor Government, George V refused to shake the hand of any representative of Soviet Russia, for it was the Soviet Government which decreed the assassination in 1918 of a brown-bearded, nervous little man known to the world as His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Tsar of All the Russias, known still to George V of Britain as "Dear...
Finally it was Edward of Wales who saved an embarrassing situation. He was still officially a member of the Regency Council appointed to deputize for King George (TIME, Dec. 10, 1928), and for duty's sake he would shake hands with anyone. Relieved palace officials announced that His Majesty was "too ill" to receive the new Ambassador, that the Prince of Wales would act in his father's place...
While amateur boxers jabbed and danced at each other in preliminary bouts, watchers saw a member of the Wales entourage whisper to Playwright Shaw, saw him shake his head. More whispering. The Shavian beard waggled in violent negation. A rumor spread: "Shaw has refused to meet the Prince!" Dinner-jacketed ringsiders were furious. Boos and whistles echoed from the cheaper seats...
Diplomatic dickering about the kiss and other ceremonials has gone on between Vatican and Quirinal for a month. The view of Signor Mussolini (no toe-kisser) remains that King should merely shake hands with Pope, denoting that they meet as temporal sovereigns of two earthly realms (Italy and the new Papal State). But Crown Prince Umberto (looked to by non-Fascist Catholics as the only figurehead they could possibly set up against Il Duce) lets it be known unmistakably that he thinks his father's lips should touch...
...Bernard Shaw the "gadfly of the absurdities of our time," met in Senator La Follette "a lonely figure climbing the mountain of privileges," condemns Henry Ford's philosophy as alluringly Utopian, too mechanistic, finds John Davison Rockefeller Jr. a man who "has made of his millions a weapon to shake ignorance out of its citadel...