Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Embattled progressives rose in wrath. Led by students who were led by Señor de la Torre, they created such a stir that it became inexpedient to dedicate the country as contemplated. The ceremony was suspended, but young de la Torre was arrested, imprisoned, deported. He is now working in Mexico for the furtherance of education, and is expected shortly...
...season of investigations, the first case of congressional self-investigation arrived. Two Congressmen made a stir recently when a Chicago grand jury said they should be investigated for various irregularities. The House at once ordered an investigation (TIME, March 17). The investigation held fire for some days because the Department of Justice was preparing to take the matter to another grand jury...
...approved of the action taken by certain students at the Indianapolis Convention in January when to pledged themselves not to enlist in any future war, Mr. Abbot declared, "I heartily disagree with any such policy, and I thank that these people who go to the different colleges trying to stir up pacifist enthusiasm should be put in prison. If we are to abolish violence, and even tea threat of violence from international affairs, we must devise means for arraying against in natural hatred and loathing. Our plan, by taking away all promise of profit in war, would destroy a great...
President Hopkins is known to be in favor of anything that stirs up the mind of the undergraduate. At a recent speech before the National Dartmouth Pow-Wow at Chicago he said: "If Lenine and Trotsky were available, I certainly would bring them into the faculty. I know no man and no interest I would not present if this would stir up the mind of the undergraduate." Open-mindedness, the ability to think, and the formation of personal convictions are, according to him, the most cherished aims of a liberal college and the greatest need of the hour...
...which Wagner used for his Tristan is a story which has woven its spell around many another artist in tone or words. Poets without number have used it. It is perhaps the parent of the triangle-play; the plot is one which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan...