Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welcome these Americans! They've come to kill us." A white launch put out to the cruiser, carrying an Embassy secretary and the U. S. military attaché. They delivered a letter from Ambassador Welles advising Secretary Swanson not to come ashore, lest his presence stir angry demonstrations. The Cabinet officer stayed meekly on the cruiser. Two hours later the Indianapolis pulled up her hook, steamed off for Panama and the Pacific carrying the aged Secretary of the Navy definitely out of the Cuban picture...
...notice. . . . In a country such as ours, with its ideals, which should be constantly held before all of our people by such publications as yours, you undertake to break down the ideals by lending the front page of your publication to such men. . . . You have done more to stir the feelings of extreme bitterness with this one gesture of yours than has been accomplished in this country by any publication since the Civil War. I am still anxious to have your explanation, as I have no desire to do you an injustice. EDMUND WATERMAN New York City
...youthful comprehension, Mr. Donal M. Sullivan, the Senior Class orator, brought an aggressive faith to bear on the recuperative powers of the party system. The emotional appeal of his bitter reference to the generation which had taught his own to "worship the golden calf" was well calculated to stir interest in his constructive program. But although he went further than Governor Cross, Mr. Sullivan, too, preferred not to look behind the cars of today's order...
...ideas of the two speakers are interesting proof that, if the depression has not failed to stir the political student's interest in the philosophical fundamentals of government, it has failed to give the politician courage publicly to question the old regime. If there is any lesson in the last four years, there may be reasonable doubt as to the impeccability of that regime. And it would appear the part of intelligent, educated men, coldly to examine the problem which American democracy poses and the alternatives which in invites...
...slight Dr. Ricardo Tapia-who has been Mexican singles champion for the last five years, whose sister Maria is Mexico's woman champion and whose youngest brother Armando gives promise of becoming Mexico's best player-won from Wilmer Allison, in a match that Allison had to stir his stumps to win, 4-6, 6-3. 6-4. 6-4. Next day the U. S. team of George Lott & John Van Ryn disposed of Eduardo Mestre, whose father founded the Mexican Lawn Tennis Association, and Alfonso Unda, a onetime caddy, 6-0. 6-1, 7-5. That settled...