Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion gave excuse for a tremendous social stir. A bustling series of luncheons, dinners, cocktail parties and balls was organized. Chief organizer was grey-haired but vivacious Mrs. Lucy Blair Linn, cousin of Col. McCormick, wife of a Chicago stockbroker. To facilitate conversation, she sent around Spanish-English dictionaries to be placed beside each guest sitting next to an Argentine. When fierce competition arose between hostesses as to who should entertain whom the night of the first game, Mrs. Linn placed the names of all eligible guests in one of her hats, had the competing hostesses draw them...
Meanwhile in Manila, Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, author of the Philippine independence bill in Congress, last week continued to stir the brown-skinned natives to feverish excitement. Old Army men were shocked, politicos delighted, when he proposed that the U. S. turn over its fortress and defense works at Corregidor to the Filipinos. Voicing the sentiment of U. S. residents, the Manila Herald flayed the Senator for hobnobbing exclusively with the natives, for discourteously ignoring U. S. officials. So alarmed was one large commercial house over the prospect of independence that it applied to Lloyd...
From experience with Harvard men generally it would seem certain that graduates from prisons presided over by these "B. B. R's" will no longer call prison "stir," nor $1,000 "a grand" or use any of the rest of the argot of the underworld we now know. Rather we may expect "Chappie" to replace "Cul" as a title of address and "loot" to take the place of "swag." All of which will be quite a bit pleasanter to the car, we admit, but quite outre. New Haven Register...
...same. At the "Pops" there is no beer in litre stone mugs, and there are few lovely women to rise smiling out of a pall of blue tobacco smoke. But in compensation, the orchestra plays Strauss as Strauss is seldom played. It plays other things also to stir the elemental passions of the Vagabond. Handel, Ravel, Victor Herbert and all the others that make music most palatable to the laymen. And a final inducement is the organ. It is not advertised as "mighty," the Vagabond is not called upon to sing "Love For Sale" as he listens...
...years ago the Cunard caused a large stir by cutting into the New York-Havana trade of U. S. lines. At worst that was only a violation of trade agreements. But last week Herbert Brooks Walker, A. S. O. A. president, spoke darkly of invoking the Federal coastwise law against the Cunard to block its new scheme. Lacking apparently was any clear-cut ruling as to whether a continuous voyage in and out of the same U. S. port by a foreign vessel was the same as transportation between U. S. ports and therefore a violation...