Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quentin, Prisoner Mooney left his potato-peeling to hear the decision in the warden's office. Sixteen years behind its grey walls have warped his perspective on the world at large and rendered him ''stir daffy."* Hoping for nothing from Governor Rolph, Mooney declared: "This makes me the outstanding figure in the world's labor movement and a symbol of the struggle of Labor for its rights." In San Francisco his defense committee exclaimed that he "had no chance whatever of receiving a fair and impartial hearing from representatives of as unprincipled a bunch of pirates...
...This is no time for demagogs. There is always the temptation to some men to stir up class prejudice. Against that effort I set myself uncompromisingly. . . . I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses of the working people of this country to destroy themselves by setting class against class and rich against poor...
...statement challenging the integrity of Harvard men and Harvard progressiveness, the conservative source of "Today's Truth--Tomorrow's Trend," reports that cribbing has not reached Harvard 'yet'. Such a discrediting imputation should serve to stir the University to a ferment of activity and reform. Even the Republicans would be stimulated to reform should they learn that the Prohibition racket had not yet come to Washington...
Considerable stir occurred in Yard circles Saturday when it was found that in anticipation of an attack on the Harvard Hall bell, newly located in the loft of the now chapel, Major Apted had placed one of his men in the upper regions of Thayer Hall. The watchman, ready to give the alarm if a light should appear in the steelwork of the chapel tower, was not, as some have said, celebrating the coming holiday. For the seventh consecutive day, however, Memorial Hall was in silence at the turn of the hour, and it looks as though the clapper case...
...there dropped down over the great stone buildings a profound silence. There is something calm in a busy city that is uneasy and restive, for it is the calm of men skulking in dark alleys and of vague shadows on brick walls. The strange lack of sound sent a stir through the King's Guard and they swaggered a trifie obviously as they strode about the streets that night...