Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing will stir first the Creightons' pity and then contempt Constitution) and near the Cathedral. In fact one sees them at the very doors of the Cathedral whining for alms, and shrewdly searching through their rheumy eyes the charitable potentialities of the stranger. At the Cathedral, too, the stranger from the U.S. will note the peculiar fashion in which the natives, who are mostly Roman Catholics, cross themselves. They make the regular gestures of the cross, then tap the nape of the neck...
...once a notable stir was created in Paris. Numerous papers, led by Le Matin, demanded that Captain Canning should be fully heard and every effort made to put an end to the expensive and unpopular war which France is waging in Morocco (TIME, Dec. 28 et ante). Meanwhile the Foreign Office coquetted with the idea of giving official cognizance to a purely self-styled envoy...
...chief pronouncement in the Senate on prohibition came, however, from Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, a wet, who knows how to stir up trouble and is pretty sure he knows how the people of New Jersey stand. He delivered a long oration favoring modification of the Volstead Act. He quoted Stephen Leacock...
...would order the bells forthwith. He said: "The flexibility and beauty of tone of the music pealing from a carillon must be heard to be appreciated. No other sounds, however attuned, can, in inclosed spaces such as chapels, churches and cathedrals, be these ever so imposing, so deeply stir the aspirations of the human heart. Nothing can so nobly carry, as a carillon placed in the open, our message of worship to imperishable Nature, which...
...Springfield (Mass.) Union: "Before the Crimson can hope to stir up any very widespread support for its innovation it will have to answer . . . two most pertinent questions. In the first place, how many undergraduates at Harvard and at the other large universities agree with the Crimson? Secondly, to what extent have these revolutionary proposals emanating from Cambridge been influenced by Harvard's poor showing in football this year...