Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive order signed May 8, but not made public until last week, made a noteworthy stir in Washington...
...only a fair film. It is a story of a jockey-called the rainmaker because he was a weather prophet-a onetime girl of the dance halls, and the old toothpick chewer who owns the dance hall. The toothpick chewer loses the girl to the jockey. Pounded in to stir the nerves are an epidemic, a fire and, naturally, a heavy flood of rain...
...late there has been no great stir about the nocturnal activities of yard cops and other University dignitaries who derive such immense pleasure from having cars towed around Cambridge while the innocent owners sleep. I really believe such foolishness to be a thing of the past until this morning. I discovered I myself had been victimized. A Ford, which I had left behind Claverly Hall in violation of a seldom-enforced rule had disappeared. Of course, theft seemed the most plausible explanation at first, but a few anxious minutes of inquiry disclosed the annoying truth My subsequent round of travel...
...boys and 50 girls (anonymously) from all the entries, to sit as state conventions to elect one of each sex from their number. The state committees will elect the teachers, who will then chaperone the chosen boys and girls going and coming on the parade that is to stir them all so imaginatively, and so deepen their patriotism, "that in future years they may be bulwarks of good citizenship in their own communities and in the nation...
There will be three judges for the competition, all of them well known in the world of letters. Cristopher Morley who is one of the judges, has written many popular books, his latest, Thunder on the Left, having created very much of a stir in literary circles. Zona Gale and William McLee are prominent as educators and authors...