Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Barss proposed a rearrangement of the musicians. In effecting this, each of the 45 players was moved to a position unorthodox in symphonic seating plans. If he had not been adaptable, Conductor Fiedler might then have found himself pointing to the trombones when he wished to stir up the bassoons. But he soon learned where his men were. Best of all, the scheme worked...
...Neill-Momgomery projects stir little trepidation in President Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways. He too is simpatico and hardheaded. He has at heart and hand a transportation system which he projected and built himself...
...have escaped the hideous spectacle of a disgustingly realistic presentation of debased womanhood. To come into contact with moral pitch visually or orally is defiling, and to sit through one suggestive play, except for the purpose of protesting to newspaper, police department, priest or minister in an effort to stir up indignation against it, is to consent to defilement. This is a matter in which whoever does not condemn, condones, and to condone immorality is a ghastly business for the citizens of any Christian country to be engaged...
...social equality was involved in my wife's going to a White House tea. My wife was not invited because she was white or black, Republican or Democrat. . . . She was invited because she happened to be the wife of a Congressman. . . . These Southern Democrats, these haters, are trying to stir up prejudice and help themselves politically. . . . There can be no question of social equality between races. . . . It is a matter of individual taste...
Some 6,000 U. S. high school students sloganed thus and similarly in a contest which ended last week. Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had offered a prize for a phrase which would stir public sentiment against such man-made rural ugliness as "hot dog" stands, billboards...