Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monotonous. That's what it is, monotonous. When balmy April breezes blow dirt around the infield and stir the fervor of the fan, then the would-be pundit seeks an original prediction to shock and startle his readers. But every spring that same breeze seems to flutter the pennant flags over New York and Brooklyn and the resigned scribe reluctantly picks the two old warhorses at either end of the BMT subway line...
...Manhattan's jazz-filled Embers nightclub last week, a newcomer was dazzling the customers with his flashing piano pyrotechnics. He started out a month ago as an unknown with a brief trial booking, created such a stir that he was immediately re-engaged and signed up for all his New York City appearances for the next three years. His name is Alex Kallao (rhymes with today-oh); he is 21, and has been blind since birth...
...magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing, riddles, word games, puns, fantastic figures and puzzles. He loved to stir up disagreement among mathematicians with such fanciful posers as his "Problem...
...Smoker, they don't have to come! The nature of the Smoker was well known to everyone before-hand, and those who came intending to have a good time did have a great time. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves except the CRIMSON photographers, who couldn't seem to stir up any bloodshed for good copy. While I do deplore the shameful waste involved in the pouring of so much beer on the Memorial Hall floor, that was the only part of the evening's entertainment that I believe could be objected to. However, sensationalism is a mispractice dear...
...only other stir at the meeting was created by a small group of students who displayed a live skunk on the front steps of New Lecture Hall in a box marked "Side Show." Asked what the animal was for, one replied, "a deodorant...