Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carbon copy, not a sequel, yet not entirely a fresh and uninfluenced cinema, Daughters Courageous has a coltish, unaffected charm, considerable wit, an ill-concealed admiration for its two picaresque but impossible male mainstays. Not calculated to stir up too much emotion, one scene in it will nevertheless bring goose-pimples to many a tough-bearded male. The scene: the girls, barbering their stepfather-elect, shaving downwards over his Adam's apple...
...prisoners are locked in at night, the guards engage in rifle practice. They leave their targets (human-shaped dummies) sprawled along the walkway with bullet holes in vital spots for the prisoners to see in the morning. No convict has escaped alive from Alcatraz. A number have gone "stir crazy." The penal psychology there is to make big shots into little ones. The country's" most poisonous malefactors are sent there to prevent their infecting less dangerous inmates of other Federal prisons. Alcatraz, "The Rock," is one nightmare which the most hardened criminals, outside it as well...
...when the first international polo matches between England and the U. S. were played at Newport, they caused so little stir that a team of British cricketers, visiting the U. S. at the same time, did not know until they returned home that a team of British poloists had been almost within batting distance of them. Last week, when the twelfth series of matches for the Westchester Cup* took place at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island, it was the No. 1 international sporting event on the U. S. calendar...
...Chile, the Popular Front Government ordered deported Hans Voigt Schmidt, German State Railroads tourist agent in Santiago. His slip: receiving 100,000 anti-Jewish leaflets. Police charged German Railroads was planning a press and radio campaign to stir up political unrest and hatred of Chile's Jews...
Britain has too many pots on the European fire just now to stir up an Irish stew. Moreover, the British public's appetite for the age-old Irish question has vanished. Of late Britain has been of a mind to let the Irish have anything within reason...