Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them later as election bait. With a great display of political righteousness, Secretary Wallace loudly reproved him: "It is a contemptible thing, indeed, for a man of Mr. Fletcher's intelligence and standing in the Republican Party to make, deliberately for partisan purposes, a completely unfounded statement designed to stir up ill will...
Britain. So sacrosanct is the British week-end that Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon created a stir by letting it be known in London that, although he would not cancel his week-end in the country, he would keep in constant touch by wire with his Foreign Office. To the Commons Sir John announced in language elliptical but unmistakable that His Majesty's Government stands with Italy and France for the preservation of Austrian independence from Germany. London editors were unanimous in flaying the Nazi slayers, echoed the Evening Standard which declared that Germany is "the Dillinger of Europe...
...pact to keep the peace of Europe began to stir fatefully last week in diplomacy's deep womb...
...Hanfstaengl are deemed unjust the Corporation obviously cannot offer education from such a source. The CRIMSON feels that since the second factor is so open to debate, the first should be stressed the most. Germany and the United States are on a friendly basis and Harvard should not stir up feeling by acting in a contrary manner. Therefore, it would be better to accept the offer as genuine and give the student the benefit of a year in Germany...
...Hall of Fame. From unconsidered and inconsiderable beginnings he had made his slow, steady way to the forefront of U. S. letters. When in 1931 he published the first part (The Forge) of his triple-decker novel of the South, it caused little stir. The second volume (The Store) won him the Pulitzer Prize and was chosen by the Literary Guild. Last week appeared the final part of Author Stribling's trilogy (Unfinished Cathedral), which in turn was chosen by the Literary Guild. But Author Stribling had won more than official plaudits. By his solid, slowly earned popularity...