Word: stirring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...treatments for his "glass arm" had not kept Conductor Toscanini so long in Italy (TIME, March 14 et ante), the world première of his friend Ottorino Respighi's Maria Egiziaca might have caused more stir last week. Toscanini planned to direct the production. But instead Composer Respighi came. He relegated Philharmonic Symphony players to a dark corner of the Carnegie Hall stage. In their usual place a great gilt-framed triptych stood, spattered with stars and angels. Angels opened the triptych, disclosed three panels rudely painted to suggest a ship docked in the harbor of Alexandria...
...larger sessions of the year. It is expected that a number of students from the Radcliffe International Relations Club will be present this evening. The two speakers have been collaborating, and have attempted to find arguments in favor of a rapprochement between the two countries rather than stir up older prejudices of national hostility...
When, six months ago, the vice president of American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. arrived from Pittsburgh to be made operating vice president of the parent company, there was little stir in the House of Steel. William A. Irvin (pronounced: Irwin) was given an office down on the 14th floor, far away from the real executive headquarters. He soon and often thereafter returned to Pittsburgh to inspect the noisy mills which are the Corporation's core. When at No. 71 Broadway, he worked hard at the used desk which had been given him. Few of the New York personnel wandered...
...offended garment. Wing seemed in the best of spirits after this demonstration of his ironing ability, and went on to observe, "We're going to build airplanes, a thousand airplanes, ten thousand airplanes, and we'll go over their big cities and rain bombs all over them. We'll stir all their cities up like so much curry and rice." Mr. Wing seized a fresh iron and demonstrated with it how, as commander of ten thousand Chinese airplanes, he would sweep down upon Tokio, and swiftly reduce it to ruins...
Last week Prince Saionji, out of sight of the Press, shuttled back and forth between the Emperor and the politicians, while Japan was making history in China. Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa talked for two hours with him, told him of all the diplomatic stir caused by Japan's action at Shanghai. Then the ancient Genro hurried to report the conversation to his Emperor and receive his instructions. Never was the old man's ripe wisdom so urgently needed...