Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a statesman solemnly announced that he favored upholding the Constitution, U. S. citizens quietly turned to their sports pages and forgot him. If he asserted that the Government ought to protect property rights, ought to encourage men to earn, save, acquire and keep property, he could not stir even a flutter of interest. But last week when six eminent gentlemen propounded these propositions they made front-page news. Finally it seemed as if the New Deal were to meet something more potent than the disorganized opposition of Herbert Hoover's well-beaten henchmen...
Repercussions in World Jewry were furious. Most Jewish leaders realize that the surest way to stir up anti-Semitism everywhere would be for Jews avowedly to organize a "Super-Government." No first rank Jewish tycoon openly contributes to the World Jewish Conference. In Manhattan the organization most U. S. Jewish tycoons support, the American Jewish Committee, manifestoed...
...Absinthe frappe" is really an absinthe julep. New Orleans masters put half a teaspoonful of sugar in the bottom of a tall glass, fill up with finely shaved ice, let the sugar dissolve, pour in 1-oz. (jigger) of absinthe, stir with a spoon, and finally add one ounce of carbonated water, drop by drop, stirring all the time until the frappe turns cloudy and thick frost forms on the glass. Similar are French absinthe frappes except for the carbonated water...
...Fort Newton of Philadelphia" is a liberal, a nominal Episcopalian, a syndicator of pious press columns (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). Having preached this summer to large congregations at City Temple he commented: "Religiously, it is a dry time in England. No great voices are speaking and there is no stir among the dry leaves of theology. Never have I seen such dearth and deadness. My impression is that the Anglican church is dead and knows it, and that the free churches are dead and do not know it-but they are finding out. A famous theologian told me yesterday that...
From dynamic Josef Stalin languid parlor Socialists get no help, but violent death-defying Socialists stir his sympathies. Last week he took under the Soviet Government's protection refugee children of Austrian Socialists who had the boldness to take arms and do battle in Vienna last winter against Austria's "Christian Fascist" Government (TIME, Feb. 26). Into Moscow rumbled a flower-decked train pack-jammed with Austrian moppets most of whose fathers had died fighting in the Schutzbund (Socialist storm troops). By twos and threes the children have escaped to Czechoslovakia where Soviet agents put them on the special train...