Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes while the boil goes on I stir it constantly with my long iron rabble. A cook stirring gravy to keep it from scorching in the skillet is done in two minutes and backs off blinking, sweating and choking, having finished the hardest job of getting dinner. But my hardest job lasts not two minutes but the better part of half an hour. My spoon weighs 25 pounds, my porridge is pasty iron and the heat of my kitchen is so great that if my body was not hardened to it the ordeal would drop me in my tracks...
...begin with, "nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction--some say twenty-two. In 'Deerslayer' Cooper violated eighteen of them." Or again, "A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are--oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English...
...ride all night in a day coach for lack of other accommodations, to watch the gradual gray of dawn creep on while miserable coat-wraped figures stir uneasily in their seats or mumble drousily, and finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were...
...Premier Stanley Baldwin, respected Conservative, saw his son Oliver electioneering at Smethwick near Birmingham in behalf of a Labor candidate. Worse still, this "Laborite" was Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late bulwark of the peerage, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. The "Oswald-Oliver" by-election campaign raised a stir which amounted to a scandal throughout England (TIME, Dec. 27), and then last week, the polling brought a climax. Oswald Mosley was elected a Laborite by 16,077 votes; only 9,495 going to J.M. Pike, his Conservative opponent while the Liberal candidate fail to poll one-eighth...
When ticket No. 17,229 fell from the ticket globe no stir was occasioned; but an instant later, amid a deadly hush, the $2,500,000 Grand Prize disc was seen to have rattled down...