Word: disturbers
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...Harris lived obscurely in her daughter's house, baking cakes and sleeping on a rickety settee. This state of affairs bothered the neighbors who thought Mrs. Templeton might treat her old mother more generously. It did not greatly disturb Mrs. Harris or Mrs. Templeton. Old Mrs. Harris remembered her big house in Tennessee whence the family had moved West. She took a quiet interest in the doings of her grandchildren, Victoria, Ronald, Adelbert. She was glad when Mrs. Rosen came over from next door to have a chat. When Mrs. Harris felt that she was going to die. she accepted...
...soldier to risk everything in the service of his country. It is the misfortune of a soldier that his duty is the destruction of the property and lives of world neighbors. It is the pity of Peace that War stories must be trodded out of the cupboard to disturb the nerves of the world which need the tonic of good faith. Papen was a splendid soldier and is proving himself a good Chancellor, the Chancellor we want. He satisfies...
...dear friend Fokine: I am ending my life by suicide because I cannot bear any longer the slander and persecution of the ballet. It may be that my jump into Niagara Falls will sufficiently disturb you and others to set back the self-inflated modernists. A greater charlatan article in Plain Dealer of Sept. 13, 1931, I have never seen. . . .* This will kill me. . . . The time will come when [Doris Humphrey's statements] will be recollected with bitter shame. . . . Now Ruth St. Denis is dreaming about a religious dance and does not see that the classical ballad dance...
...that star until, grown up, she at last waylaid him on the street, turned the blissful doorknob to her own account. Three nights they dallied, then R. went out of town. Slowly, reading the letter, he begins to realize that he was the father of her child. Lest she disturb him with the maintenance of herself and his child, for eleven years she took rich lovers. For his sake too she would not marry them. At last, in straitened circumstances, her child is dead and she is now dying. When he receives her letter she will be dead, alas...
...there are one or two elements, which, unless carefully managed, will be apt to disturb, at least temporarily, that beautiful peace which has hitherto blessed the Republican campaign. Mr. Hoover is, of course, assured of his re-nomination, an event which will climax the proceedings on Thursday. But the choice of a running mate is as yet a trifie less certain. The president, to be sure, would retain his present partner, but Mr. Curtis, aside from his advanced age of 73 years, is politically in-acceptable to many party leaders. There has already been much foolish talk about Mr. Coolidge...