Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a stir in the church. The doors opened. Out came the priest and his flock. The friends of Dacunda. leaning lazily against the pillars of the Municipal Building, flipped out their revolvers and began shooting. Priest & friends popped back into church and returned the fire. The noise was terrific. After ten minutes of fusillading everyone except one wounded man felt better. Father Dacunda cuffed his daughter, told her to go home and change her dress...
Last week at No. 2320 Terrace Rd.; Des Moines, on a hillside overlooking the Raccoon River, closets and drawers were being emptied, suitcases and trunks were being packed. The stir & bustle presaged a local milestone. After 28 years during which he had won nation-wide fame as the Des Moines Register's syndicated cartoonist, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling was going to live in Washington. Week before another onetime Des Moines citizen, Secretary Wallace, had called him to head the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey. Manhattan publishers who have made him. many a fancy offer...
...airs of spring cooled and freshened by melting snows of New Hampshire, troubled with the sound of nesting birds and sweetened with fragrance from bursting buds and flowing maple sap come to disturb the student at his desk, to stir him to forget book, to promulgate questionnaires if he is learned, to do other things if he is not, it is time for a movie like the Mystery of Mr. X. It combines the detective thriller which diverts the gray board scholar, with the bill-and-coo whimsy comedy so appropriate to our age, to this season. It is smoothly...
...trade agreements and on his own authority to raise or lower U. S. tariff rates by not more than 50%. He might have added that although he hoped for early action he hardly expected it. Often and candidly his Congressional advisers have told him that a tariff proposal would stir up a storm at the Capitol that would last most of the summer...
Merton Little, the fraternity's janitor for ten years, discovered the broken pipe when he tramped in at 6:30 a. m. to stir the fire. Muttering angrily, he picked up the pieces, fitted them back in place. He had told the fraternity's Graduate Body, owners of the house, that the furnace was worn out and ought to be replaced. But no one listened to a janitor. Still grumbling, he climbed up to the sleeping rooms on the second and third floors. Finding the boys snug in their beds, he pushed down a few barely-opened windows...