Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge gave in to the extent of "authorizing" ten eventual cruisers (TIME, Dec. 27). Last week, in peace talks at his two press conferences, the President emphasized that these ten cruisers are merely a program, that he would approve nothing for present construction, that he does not wish to stir competitive navy building by the world powers. Thus, militant Congressmen and Navy officers are back in their original position, ready to fight for immediate appropriations for at least three cruisers...
...Extract the brains from the public, pickle them, put them in the Natural History Museum with a strong infusion of monkey gland, stir hard and let simmer for 100 years. Something may emerge from the mixture...
...Scroll of history is replete with stories that stir the heart and fire the naggination. Sagas of the rise and fall of nations like the total annihilation of Carthage in a single month, or the great movement that started from the cave of Vallombrosa to carry out its dream and build, after ten centuries, the world-wide Spanish Empire, are truly Homeric in their subject matter. But few tales are more magnificent than that of the phenix of a free united Italy, rising from the ashes of the fires of revolution that had swept the peninsula so long...
...least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...
...arisen had our pulpits beer filled with men abreast of current thought and seriously teaching then people. The number of college professors and leaders in the professions who show no interest ir the Church is an alarming sign of the inability of our clergy to grip the minds and stir the imaginations of many of our educated people. A rift between teachers of religion and foremost thinkers . . . constitutes a grave national peril...