Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that shades almost imperceptibly away from real life. Mary Roberts Rinehart has more than a nodding acquaintance with most of the people she writes about, and by the standards of her school her sympathies are keen. To those who mistake the itch and ache of sentimentality for the cathartic stir of tragedy, The Doctor may prove a pleasantly laxative experience...
Result. Unlike the trade treaty with Canada which evoked a frightful roar from U. S. producers (TIME, Nov. 25), the French treaty caused almost no stir at all. Few of the U. S. products on which France lowered the duty have serious competition from French agriculture and industry. U. S. producers of brandy, wines, perfumes, feather dusters and the like were not politically potent enough to make their small squawks heard in Washington. Last week both the U. S. and French publics seemed decidedly ready to exchange champagne for automobiles, Roquefort cheese for fountain pens...
Marshal Badoglio caused a great stir in Paris when he announced that he was taking over the French-owned railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti (see col. 3). Before long normal rail service to the coast was restored...
...keynoter and temporary chairman of a national political convention is, as most voters know, the man who starts the show with a long, ardent harangue which is forgotten by the time the first nominating ballot is taken. Nonetheless the Press made a great stir last week when, as a gesture to the West and liberals, the potent Committee on Arrangements of the Republican National Committee picked Oregon's mildly progressive Senator Frederick Steiwer to sound the Party keynote at Cleveland next June. Republican newspapers tried to make the gesture seem important. Democratic sheets gleefully compared the probable content...
...Viola Brown Lin, 25, onetime 5?-&-10? store clerk; in Columbus, Ohio. Last April Jimmy, a graduate student at Ohio State University, walked into a store to buy a fishing rod, met Miss Brown. His marriage three months later shocked & grieved President Lin, caused a political stir. In September Jimmy deserted his wife, fled home...