Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mamoulian: There seems to have been quite a stir, doesn't there? And all for nothing. No, we're not married...
Meanwhile in Britain where it takes much less impudence by the Press to stir up much more trouble than in the U. S., the tall, hard-living Duke of Westminster last week started a libel suit against his 26-year-old niece, Lady Sibell Lygon, and Editor W. G. A. Wayte of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Owner of 600 acres on London's fashionable West End, the Duke of Westminster has an income of $1,225,000 a year out of which he pays $50,000 in alimony to the two wives who divorced him for adultery...
Significance. To Franklin Roosevelt in the White House and to many another keen political head the stir had quite another significance. It meant that most of the silver bloc in Congress had had their thunder stolen. Only a few months ago silver was 25? an ounce and 64 1/2 ? was such a magnificent price by comparison that they would appear foolish to complain By his action the President appeared to have detached one of the most earnest battalions from the inflationist army, to have disarmed what would undoubtedly have been one of the most troublesome factions in the new Congress...
...Going Hollywood (Metro-GoldWyn-Mayer) Marion Davies stands proxy for all U. S. radio enthusiasts who grow sickly sentimental over crooners. In a girls' school she listens to the songs of one Bill Williams (Bing Crosby) which so stir her that she pursues him to Hollywood. There she finds that radio crooners are less romantic in real life than they seem on the air. Bill Williams is acting in a cinema, backed by a solemn Ernest-P. Baker (Stuart Erwin). directed by a sardonic Mr. Conroy (Ned Sparks). In the cast is Williams' temperamental mistress Lili Yvonne (Fifi...
...meaning of the word 'obscene' as legally defined by the courts is: 'Tending to stir the sex impulses or to lead to sexually impure and lustful thoughts.' . . . After I had made my decision in regard to the aspect of Ulysses now under consideration I checked my impressions with two friends. . . . I was interested to find that they both agreed with my opinion: that reading Ulysses in its entirety . . . did not tend to excite sexual impulses or lustful thoughts but that its net effect on them was only that of a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary...