Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George S. Kaufman, in collaboration this time with Miss Katharine Dayton, has proved himself something of a doctrinaire in "First Lady". The requirement, of course, was that the doctrine be silly enough to stir up amusement, if not enthusiasm, in American audiences. American audiences haven't pledged themselves, and don't intend to pledge themselves, to anything politically serious. So Mr. Kaufman declares over the interval of two jolly hours that wives are the only things that make the Washington merry-go-round go 'round. Not content with having put love in the White House along with a Mr. Wintergreen...
...come into being behind the dam, a lake generating power,* and at this moment the powerful turbines are awaiting the relatively tiny impulse of an electric current which will flow from the touch of my hand on the button which you see beside me on the desk, to stir machinery into life, to stir it into creative activity to generate power." This was pardonable hyperbole, for the first of Boulder Dam's 15 generators of 115,000 h. p. each will not be ready for operation until next month. Only one little 3,500 h. p. generator to supply...
...Mormons planned to extend their empire to California, Rich was one of the two apostles they sent in charge of the expedition. The California experiment eventually petered out, but as a reward for his efforts, Rich was sent to Europe with another apostle on an innocent junket, to stir up the Saints in foreign lands...
...times past, have lived and fought for freedom, and seem to have grown too weary to carry on the fight. They have sold their heritage of freedom for the illusion of a living. They have yielded their democracy. I believe in my heart that only our success can stir their ancient hope. They begin to know that here in America we are waging a great war. It is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization. It is a war for the survival of democracy. . . . "I accept the commission you have tendered...
Onetime Senator George Higgins Moses from New Hampshire rushed about making statements to stir up enthusiasm for Candidate Frank Knox. Bald-domed Carl Bachmann from West Virginia bustled for Candidate Borah. But the spotlight burned steadily on the sleek, curly head of young John Hamilton, manager for Alf Landon. Perched on the back of an overstuffed chair in Cleveland's old-fashioned Hollenden Hotel, Hamilton had the Press basking at his feet as he announced that Landon would have over 300-no-over 400 votes, perhaps a majority (502 votes) on the first ballot...