Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PLUMED SERPENT?D. H. Lawrence?Knopf ($3). Here lies Mexico, a sullen nation of black obsidian, brooding beneath a cruel sun. Christ hangs dead upon his cross and the name of Mary is a sterile myth in dusty shrines. By night, among the peons, the old gods stir, the Aztec gods. Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake, is come again from "the cave which is called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night...
...example," he said, "What does the following suggestion for a poem or an article refer to: Randolph consecrating the Duke of York's banners'? It turns up again in a curious poem called the Devil's Walk, and seems to have made a good deal of a stir at the time, but the incident remains to be identified. In addition there are fascinating extracts from one of the most interesting books of the period, Bartram's 'Travels in Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, etc.;' extracts dealing with alligators, snake-birds, Indians and strange plants. There are references...
...Significance: the radio-wave spectrum being definitely limited, many stations are now forced to use the same wavelengths, going on the air at different hours by agreement. There was a hopeful stir when John Hays Hammond Jr. proved the possibility of sending many messages on a single "carrier" wave upon which modulations were impressed (TIME, Oct. 26). Skala's invention promises to simplify air-traffic even further, to solve the selectivity problem of listeners-in, to open the field of wireless telephony as a substitute for common wire service...
...renewed dissension at Yale was stirred up, strange to say, by Harvard. There is, in Harvard's junior class, a onetime member of Yale's present senior class, one Lucius Beebe. After three years of moon-calfing about in New Haven, Student Beebe is in a position to tell Harvard men much about their Eli contemporaries. A bookish, loose-tongued fellow, with poetic ideas and no great respect for conventions, he is willing to make a public stir in the columns of the Crimson, Harvard's live undergraduate daily. Last autumn he supplied a comparison of Yale...
...stir in the press was caused by the announcement that Governor Jonathan and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut would pay a visit of several days at the White House on their way to a vacation in Florida. Like a bloodhound the press smelled romance, drawing various conclusions from these premises: John Coolidge met the Trumbulls on a special train going to Washington for his father's inauguration; John is at Amherst And Jean Trumbull, the Governor's daughter, is at Mt. Holyoke ten miles away; twice John has visited the Trumbulls at Hartford...