"Shimmy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Gold money is all sufferin's or 'arf-sufferin's. I got it tied in a corner o' what Miss Montagu taught me to call my shimmy—shifts bein' vulgar, ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... learned a lot since leaving school, not only about prohibition, but also about speed laws, men's fashions, facial massage, the fox trot and the shimmy, caviar, silk pajamas, bromo-seltzer, the language of flowers, and many of the pleasures and displeasures of the higher intellectual life, such as love ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... such pleasures as The shimmy and "the Bacchus Jazz"; Your presence with the maidens jars— You are the ...
— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams
... Cabello coffees come across the thirty-mile gulf to the westward from the port of Tucacas, in a little steamer called the Barquisimento, which is famous all along the coast as the "cocktail shaker." C.H. Stewart[324] solemnly asserts that "Barky" can do the "shimmy" when lying at anchor in ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers |
