Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...document, did not seem to have as keen an ear for the murmur as the person at whom the protest was directed, for as soon as the applause set in they were frightened into a policy of hopeful waiting. When the applause was to die down they hoped to stir the murmur into a growl and with a late fall campaign to bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Government to force an election...
...attack of Mrs. Marbury, New York Democratic leader, on Mrs. Coolidge for making public the cost of her waists may, of course, not be free from malice. It is enough to stir any true Democrat to wrath to realize that the process of making modish shirtwaists for $1.69 is exclusively a Republican secret. One suspects that the criticism is motivated as much by the fact that Mrs. Coolidge withheld the details as to pattern and material as by the advertising of her thrift. Were the Democratic women truly wise, they would immediately closed themselves in conference with Mr. Snippean. What...
Albania. Premier Fan Noli of Albania, Harvard graduate, caused a stir in the Assembly by delivering himself of a veiled attack on the U. S. He described Boston as an Irish city "full of O'Connors, O'Connells and Fitzgeralds, all of them good talkers, who with other Irishmen do all of the talking in American electoral campaigns...
...Werewolf: Described by Alexander Woollcott as "the most sedulously pornographic comedy of recent years," this adaptation from the German of Rudolph Lothar created a stir in Manhattan last week. Mr. Woollcott went on to describe the play as one "with three acts, nine actors and six cases of adultery...
...were aware that elephants had once been men: "He looked so serious when he asked the question that, on my soul, I was half inclined to believe him. I tell you in that darkening forest with the rustling of the tropical leaves about me and the indefinable stir of the oncoming night audible everywhere, it seemed more than possible that I was about to hear the authentic story of the origin of man." This may serve to illustrate, in a small measure, the eerie quality of a book that bids fair to do what W. H. Hudson's work...