Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amadeo Peter Giannini, a Sicilian peasant by ancestry, acts the Roman patrician by nature. He believes himself the guardian as well as the leader of his clients. Because he knows that the ever-expanding activities of his bank and investment corporation tend to stir up speculation in their securities, he warns the unwary...
There is an ominous stir in the night near your house?people's voices, running feet, cars arriving, shouts, a muffled crackling. Hurrying out of doors you see, through the windows of a neighbor's home, the ugly surge of fire...
Chief Argentine Delegate Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the U. S. created a mild stir by proposing a Pan-American treaty of commerce leveling tariff barriers between the signatory states. Naturally this idea went glimmering when Mr. Hughes intimated firmly that no such proposal had, to his knowledge, a place in the set Conference agenda (TIME...
...would survive disestablishment? I believe that I am right in thinking that the spirit . . . of compromise which has been a mark of the Church of England for centuries is a thing worth preserving in national life." Such reasoned argument appealed to many in the House, but passions began to stir when a fiery blast against "compromise" was blared by the Home Secretary, hot-headed reactionary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks. Cried he: "Romish practices have been tolerated too long in the Church of England! The bishops know not how to suppress these practices and so they propose to surrender...
...Destiny. So enormous are the powdered peaks of the Alps, so wild and casual the winds that sweep between them that the actions of people must seem in comparison fragile and inconsequent, even unreal. The people in this picture are mainly three; Diotina, a dancer, whose amorous flippancies stir her fiance to jealousy as they stir his young friend to devotion. The fiance traps his friend on a high and dangerous ledge; then, at the instant of carrying out his plan, he regrets it and clings to a rope through a night of storm until men arrive to rescue both...