Word: bestirring
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Midsummer Night's Dream. Again Salzburg buzzed. This happens every year in August. It is then that the better hotels bestir themselves to show celebrated visitors* to the rooms reserved months in advance. It is then that wretched hostelries truss up dilapidated chambers for the heedless hundreds who have arrived without provision. It is the season of the world-famed Festival, when Max Reinhardt? produces old plays in a manner always unique. The one thing visitors can be reasonably sure of in these Festivals is that they will start with a play related in some way to religion, in accordance...
With the fate of Colonel Mitchell on the way to being determined by the reviewing authorities in the War Department and by the President, Congress began to bestir itself. It went about it in two ways...
Some months ago members of the British royal family commenced to bestir themselves in the performance of an annual and not unimportant duty-the choice of motifs and mottoes for their Christmas cards...
...unflurried, enlightened Viceroy, his successor must bestir himself actively to match his worth...
...Sandoval's) colleagues, erstwhile rebels in the captured city of New Orleans. They had, it would appear, hatched a plot to ship over to France certain financial inducements to some of the feminine harpies "with made-up titles," who surround Louis Napoleon, to persuade that calloused monarch to bestir himself in the cause of the Confederacy. They had collected some $250,000, much of it in honest English and French gold, had entrusted it to a shipping agent for transfer to France via the New York banks ? all cunningly concealed in a hollow statue of Hercules...