Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is any mortal whose lot no mortal need envy, it is that of Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler. The honored president of Columbia University can seldom stir from its portals without arousing a storm of reviling quite incommensurate with the strength of his opinions. His latest mishap along the road of liberal salvation is named "The Faith of a Liberal", and what a whirlwind of scarn and opposition it has blown up! His liberalism is satirized, his progressiveness denied, and all his past is dragged forth "to affright his eyes...
...handle cases of jurisdiction concerning prisoners, cases rising out of the prohibition and internal revenue laws and minor cases belonging to several other categories. Lately, in regard to the enforcement of the prohibition laws, she has been making quite a stir. At one time or another she has taken shots at some 45 Federal District Attorneys and other Federal officers whom she believed to be lax. Since Attorney General Stone came to office-came from the law school instead of the school of politics-her attacks are beginning to be backed up by dismissals. In Boston, one attorney was summarily...
Early on the day before Christmas, a stir that had moved for weeks beneath the regal calm of the Vatican rose to its crescendo. Through lofty-ceilinged corridors and spacious chambers, the imminence of a great occasion loomed almost into sight, quickening men's steps, sharpening conversations. Legates, priests, guards, swarms of distinguished visitors came and went busily or stood in knots waiting. The sheen of myriad deep-dyed silks, the richness of furs and laces and sparkling gems moved everywhere in splendid profusion. Occasionally way was made for the slow, scarlet dignity of a cardinal, gala in ceremonial...
Toward sundown, the stir hushed. All was ready and the imminence pressed to reveal itself. The doors of the Pontiff's apartment trembled, parted, delivered up a gorgeous procession led by a canopied sedan chair on the shoulders of twelve scarlet-clad sediarii. Down vast corridors, down wide steps into the Sistine Chapel moved the procession. There the canopied chair opened and Pope Pius XI stepped out, knelt, worshipped. Entering the chair again, he had himself carried on to the entrance to the great nave of St. Peter's, his followers lowers carrying candles and chanting liturgical verses...
...Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, horns honked, crowds jostled. Walled from the trespass of honkings, jostlings, in a very still room on that thoroughfare, a courtly company gathered last week. Financiers, famed beauties, serene old ladies. Day faded; lights pricked out along the Avenue. There was no stir, no chatter of departing guests in the still room-the gallery of M. Jacques Seligmann. Women of fashion, men of affairs, all strangely stayed when they should have gone home to dress for dinner. They did not go because they had lent their faces to the Loan Exhibition of the Society...