Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placed under the control of an international commission whose members are the eight local consular officers of the Powers adherent to the Act of Algeciras. Therefore, the Spanish declaration of last week re-opened on a trumped-up issue a question long ago adjusted mutually by the Powers, and stirred again many always delicate issues. For example, Britain has never been willing that any one Continental power should dominate Tangier lest it be fortified into a menace to the route to India. No one believed last week that Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera would achieve the momentous concession from...
What lies in store for patrons of the Metropolitan Opera behind the quizzical title, The King's Henchman, remains entirely to be seen and heard. But it heads the prospectus of Director Gatti-Casazza and there was a stir last year when its authors, Composer Deems Taylor and Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, were commissioned to contrive an all-native opera. The music is finished; Deems Taylor is in Europe. And last week came news that, despite the ravages of a long illness, the pale and slender young librettist had finished a first draft...
...Gabriele announced recently that he will not stir from his literary workshop at Gardone until All Saints' Day (Nov. 1). "Nothing," he declared, "shall interrupt my daily labors save an unanticipated thunderbolt...
...purpose of these Eucharistic Congresses is to give Catholics opportunity to proclaim their faith in public demonstration, to show openly their devotion to the Holy Eucharist (TIME, June 7). Not only do these meetings stir the hearts of Catholics, call them closer to their religion but they are also a means of international amity, emphasizing as they do the superiority of Catholicism to natural boundaries. Another fruit they bear is the strengthening of faith of the wavering. Mass, Communion, Lord's Supper, Mystery, Sacrifice, Love Feast-the Eucharist has many appellations according to its different aspects...
...some railroad company advertising the glories of Glacier National Park; but, since few people read prefaces, it will not prevent their going farther and seeing that "Old, Old, Old Andrew Jackson" and "A Curse for the Saxaphone" will mysteriously appeal to their aesthetic tastes as well as amuse and stir them. On the surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either a tremendous and subtle artistry in this seeming shapelessness or else Mr. Lindsay is gifted with...