Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The announcement of the candidacies of Senator Johnson and Mr. McAdoo on the same day is generally, and probably rightly, attributed to the stir that was caused by Mr. Mellon's proposal for a tax cut. The Mellon proposal was one of the most telling political moves of the season, and its reception was a nine days' political wonder; to Hiram Johnson's Presidential ambitions it had more meaning than to William G. McAdoo's, because the proposal is generally considered a feather in Mr. Coolidge's cap, and Mr. Johnson must fight...
Samuel Morgan Shortridge is said to be the tallest man in the Senate. In size, at least, he rises well above his colleague, Hiram W. Johnson. Just at present he seems about to stir up as much trouble for the Administration as the other Californian -but in quite a different way. Senator Shortridge is going to introduce into Congress an amendment to the immigration law which would bar all persons not eligible for citizenship from entering this country, meaning to bar Asiatics, and intended to bar Japanese...
...little book--scarcely more than a short-story novel in form--will not make any great stir, nor be heralded with superlatives, nor even, in all probability, be granted the attention it deserves. For it is pleasant, gentle, free from the slightest taint of flashiness; and has been written, as all books must be if they are to live, as the embodiment of a certain ideal...
...Wilson: " The anniversary of Armistice Day should stir us to great exaltation of spirit because of the proud recollection that it was our day, a day above those early days of that never-to-be-forgotten November which lifted the world to the high levels of vision and achievement upon which the great War for democracy and right was fought and won; although the stimulating memories of that happy time of triumph are forever marred and embittered for us by the shameful fact that when the victory was won-won, be it remembered, chiefly by the indomitable spirit and ungrudging...
...believed to be large. Others pointed out that 1924 was a Presidential year, that the Party in power might show more than verbal gratitude to anyone who could prevent depression and maintain prosperity at least until after election day. A third school maintained that large interests wished to stir up a good market in order to liquidate securities likely to decline further next year. All agreed, how ever, that, if manipulation was responsible, it was no "piker's game," that substantial financial interests had seriously committed themselves...