Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power in the land. Then all America, save for wicked Manhattan, was one vast hinterland. Men gathered their families under mansard roofs; little girls in gingham and pigtails kicked their high shoes against the scrollwork of the porch. When the broad highway was muddy wagon track, men made no stir to journey afield. The village bar answered a man's thirst; and in the village barber-shop every voice had its part...
...situation confronting the islands today," loyally declared the Star-Bulletin, "should stir the patriotism of every son and daughter of Hawaii. The people of the islands must stand together in this crisis. They must stand by the Governor and the members of the Legislature they put in office...
...young man never advanced in rank handicapped as he was by a stammer which prevented him from reading sermon. Disappointed he turned again to his first work, and in the same year printed an ambitious little volume called "A Syllabus of Plane Allgebraical Geometry." This created but little stir in the pleasant, close cropped countrysides of England, so a year later the literary world was the richer by a book on the "Formulae of Plane Trigonometry" which reached a public scarcely larger. At last in disgust this author changed his name and in 1865 there appeared the biography...
...museum is a U-shaped building of pure Georgian design containing a New York rarity?a real garden in its fore court. Only two floors of exhibits were on view last week but these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter Stuyvesant's sword, Alexander Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There...
Suddenly there was a slight stir all over the theatre, a muffled murmur as of an army leaving its bivouac for a night attack. Then the music stopped, an eighty year old man kissed a 300 pound woman and the curtain came trailing down. Amid applause the lights shot up and with them the audience. They had girded themselves well for this moment. Quick the exits. And Boston whirled out into the track outside the circle of boxes. The lights showed bravely on the brilliant ladies and the handsome men. How much the Vagabond had missed up there...