Word: astir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Were astir at 6 a.m. on the opening morning, as M. P.s got set to sprint and capture the seats they will hold throughout the session...
Stanford University, of which Alumnus Hoover has been a guiding force since his graduation in 1895, was very much astir for the impending event. Committees of the faculty an of Palo Alto's citizens met at the home of Professor Theodore Jesse Hoover, the hero's elder brother and valued adviser, to plan their part in the proceedings They decided to hold the ceremony in Stanford's roomy football stadium, where 90,000 persons can look on. They prepared to throw some of the campus fraternity houses open to visiting newsgatherers. Distinguished guests were to be accommodated...
Meanwhile the Soviet press was vigorously astir with discussion of the significance of the Afghan visitation. Since the Russian proletariat has been taught to hate and despise "kings" and "emperors," His Majesty was ambiguously referred to in the press, by order of the Soviet censor, as a "Padisha." Curiously enough, however, the verbal use of "Majesty" was not barred, because research had established that the late Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, whose every act and word has become a sanctified example, once addressed to the "Padisha of Afghanistan" a letter which began, "Your Majesty...
...Christmas Day, President Coolidge was astir before 7 a.m. Going out on the rear grounds of the White House, he greeted his pet raccoon, who wore his gift, a gleaming collar bearing the legend: "Rebecca Raccoon of the White House." Returning indoors, the President gazed reflectively at the three Christmas trees in the Blue Room, decorated by Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John. This was the first time that there have been Christmas trees in the White House since the death of Calvin Coolidge Jr. Later the Presidential family gathered upstairs with Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston...
Fascists snapped to attention last week, carried out curt orders in haste. Il Duce's logical and ruthless spirit was astir. Before the week was out he haded has "an Augustan conception of grandeur." 3) Decreed, to the discomfiture of Fascismo's capitalist well-wishers, that every merchant in Italy must display both the wholesale and retail price of his goods, and must throw open his books to the Government, which will permit him to make no more than what it considers a fair profit. 4) Inaugurated a tax on bachelors, the proceeds of which will be devoted...