Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heywood Broun: "... even I'm Just Wild About Harry could not stir exceedingly dead Elizabethan bones...
Notwithstanding the smallness of the audience something told me that at last I had the opportunity to stir them up, to move the crowd. Stepping to the platform I began...
Though Austria has been invited to the 1924 Olympic Games, the International Committee resolved to bar Germany. It was pointed out that the spectacle of German athletes in the Grand Parade of the Nations might stir more than the memories of those present in the Paris Stadium. Russia, too, was barred. By invitation of President Masaryk of the CzechoSlovak Republic, the Olympic Congress of 1925 will be held in Prague. Pope Pius granted an audience to the International Olympic Committee and praised their efforts for clean, moral sport...
...leader of his own one-man bloc in the Senate, had something to say about the next election. Into a speech at Akron, Ohio, he ventured to inject two sentences-by a little rhetorical device dating back to the Roman Re- public-two sentences that caused no little stir in political circles. "I do not turn aside to discuss," said he with studied innocence, "third party movements. Such a movement is not impossible, not even improbable." This declaration he made in a speech which was in reality an excoriation of the Republican Party for not having any real issues...
...winter Eastward through Siberia; struck South across Inner and Outer Mongolia and into Thibet; retraced his steps, skirted--the Desert of Gobi, and finally reached Urga, the city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving at the time as headquarters for Baron Ungern's campaign to stir up the ancient race of Jenghis Khan against the Bolsheviki, he made his way through Manchuria and thence to Peking and safety. It is the wildest sort of an Odyssey--the more powerful because of the deadly earnestness and precision with which it is told, and because of the fact...