Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands are none too clean-and yet this criticism of hostility at the Games is just another example of our self-righteousness. The newspapers stir us with accounts of how the gallant boys were coolly received by the French spectators; but they do not tell us some of the things I saw with my own eyes: a young Frenchman knocked deliberately and for no reason from his bicycle into three inches of black dust at Cherbourg; drunkenness on the Olympic train from Cherbourg to Paris; the stealing of three bottles of wine from an old peasant woman at the station...
...their appearance as pages personally edited by Harry Houdini, President of the Society of American Magicians. Red this magic section was-red with ink. Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic" was used in its popular, journalistic sense in naming the new section. And a popular, highly successful journalistic departure the new section promised...
...justified? the Yale game meeting tonight in the Union surely is. Captain Greenough's eleven stands battered and scarred by a disheartening season. The team is sorely in need of the psychological tonic of a super-demonstration of undergraduate confidence and support. The situation is such as should stir to action the spirit of every Harvard...
...other hand, that the technical structure of poetry is not so readily grasped as the technical structure of prose. Or, again, it may be that poetry is more a question of inspiration than of assiduity. None of the poetry seems to have the power to stir the reader tremendously, yet it will all repay his reading...
...Mail; and to such officials Washington tradition always grants the courtesy rank. Still young, though his forehead has climbed very high, with clear blue eyes and a square chin, Colonel-General Henderson has shown remarkable executive ability in developing the Air Mail service. And he is able, too, to stir up public interest in the work of his department. The microphone has no terrors for him. Broad casting under the auspices of the Aeronautics Department of New York Uni versity, he gave last week as chatty and graphic a talk as the wireless has ever carried to listening thousands...