Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel did her old Jenny Lind act, she sang off pitch. But nobody minded, especially when Soprano Bori came forward. Soprano Bori that evening was Adelina Patti, dressed...
...long rectangular square in Naples, a crowd which fills the place solidly from wall to wall has been waiting for hours. In spite of the burning sun, the enthusiasm has never abated, and the low hum of the densely packed mob is steadily increasing in volume. There is a stir on the small balcony of the building at the extreme end of the plaza, a short, black-shirted, uniformed figure steps briskly to the balustrade, and the low hum swells instantly to a tumultuous roar which becomes ever louder as the minutes wear by. On the balcony the little...
This great spectacle with its bands and its banners will stir the blood of some 250,000 spectators. But in all the crowd no heart will pound with such pride as that of an erect, white-haired, hazel-eyed old lady sitting close to the new President as he takes the oath before the Capitol, looking over his shoulder on the reviewing stand. Few mothers have known the exaltation that Sara Delano Roosevelt will know as she watches her only son enter the White House...
...suspicions that he might be Wall Street's go-between in maneuvers to scale down Europe's War debts to the U. S. have slowly died out. Last week Professor Sprague, now an accepted and respected figure in "The City" (London's financial district), created a stir by stating his conviction that Prosperity can be restored in industrial countries by creating a demand for a new product-such as the motor car once was. This new product, said the Bank of England's Sprague, does not have to be invented. It is already at hand. Industrialists...
...went to the Holy Roman Emperor and told on him. So Duke Heinrich found himself deposed. Then began a picaresque and piggish progress as the Duke and his rapscallion retinue sponged their way around Europe. The Duke failed notably to have himself made King of Poland. He failed to stir up Germany against the Holy Roman Empire. Though he made enough of an impression on the Counts Palatine and Conde to get on their army payroll (which was all he wanted), he did not conquer France. Finally he thought of marrying Queen Elizabeth. But instead he went back to Liegnitz...