Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pending litigation between his parents and his guardian, Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey (TIME, Aug. 11), young Ricci had been forbidden to leave New York State unguarded by police. Two stalwart officers accompanied him to the very stage of Mechanics Hall, but the boy was apparently unmoved by the stir they caused, or by the presence in the front row of his watchful father. With great self-possession he scraped a little curtsey, gave a rarely luminous performance of the Concerto, returned to his towering escorts...
...first pitch. It was Woody English, wiry Chicago third-baseman, coming up in the tenth with one out and the score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing in the run that won the game for the Cubs, 4-3. The big crowd went home jubilant. In a crucial series with Brooklyn...
...March 22: Last night the President came in tired out. . . , The French are behaving badly and he says he really thinks they want to begin the War again. They want to do just what Germany did in '70: annex some of Germany and then stir up bad feeling...
...JACK* Cry all, "Alack!" And wring your hands in vain! SAM, JACK, and BEN, Cry all, "Amen!" In triplicate refrain! For you, I fear, This flying year By AMY are stir passed, Whom all the new Johnsonian crew Now welcome home at last...
Britons had a prime news tidbit to stir with their tea last week: Queen Mary smokes cigarets! London's News-Chronicle found it out. What brand she prefers the News-Chronicle could not say, but smoke she does: one cigaret after lunch, one cigaret after tea, no more...