Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he thinks Mexico City an unanswerable "argument against our present economic system," mass movements, whether political or esthetic, fail to move his scientific enthusiasm or stir his particularistic curiosity: "It will be interesting to see whether the revivalist enthusiasm worked up by Communists, Nazis and Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority...
Producer P. T. Barnum, an expounder of temperance, never allowed anything stronger than beer served in his auditorium. But the thrifty showman must stir in his grave, into which he was lowered 43 years ago last week, at the amount of the brew given gratis at the American Music Hall. Lavishly distributed by Producer Harry C. Bannister. Cinemactress Ann Harding's divorced husband, round after round appears, during the performance and after, when the cast descends among the guests and encourages one & all to join in singing old favorites...
Parker's death robbed Boston of its second great critic within the season. Philip Hale retired from the Herald at 79 (TIME, Nov. 20). For the past few weeks Critic Parker had worked to stir up interest in the Metropolitan Opera's visit to Boston, its first in 16 years.* He died three days before the opening...
...wrote it and I was but the humblest of instruments in his hands." In it? first year this book sold 1,800,000 copies. Translated into 37 tongues, it is estimated by Author Stowe to have sold a total of six or seven million. Mrs. Stowe never caused more stir than in 1869 when in the Atlantic Monthly she published The True Story of Lady Byron's Life. For defending the memory of her dead friend by recounting Lord Byron's incestuous relations with his sister, Mrs. Stowe was roundly condemned in the U. S. and England...
...hasenpfeffer: Use cottontail rabbits. Chop meat into quarters. Put meat in pickling and leave for three days. Cut onions in small pieces and put them in pan until they are golden brown. Add flour. Brown the meat in separate pan. then add to onions and flour. Add "stock." Stir in a small amount of strained tomatoes. Remove the meat from the pan. Strain the gravy. Thicken it with sour cream and flour. Pour this over meat and serve...