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Word: stirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance of a book of poetry is even less likely to produce any stir of interest than the new novel or biography. This insensitiveness on the part of the reading public to contemporary verse is probably due to the innumerable slim, exotic volumes put forth by poetasters and minor aesthetes which offer slight satisfaction for all their fine exteriors and extravagant claims. Even if bad poetry does usually fall more miserably than bad prose, those works which actually reach the heights of true poetry and sustain themselves there are all the more worthy of admiration and attention...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/10/1931 | See Source »

...Kremlin where Dictator Stalin has his home and offices. The smaller buildings in the block behind G. P. U. are all interconnected and contain the homes of its lesser officials. The highest officials of G. P. U. live in rooms adjoining their offices and seldom stir outside. Each has his kitchen, his trusted cook. The entire G. P. U. block is guarded as a unit. Sentries mount double guard at each outside door and on each landing. The highest officials of the Government and of the G. P. U. itself cannot enter or leave without showing a written pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Gay-pay-oo | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Commonwealth of Massachusetts, superlative conservative, has progressed to the consideration of a bill providing for legalized birth control. Thirty-one states have already passed a law resembling that which is causing so much agitation on Beacon Street. Nor is the move as sectionalized as the stir in the local press would have it. The Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate is now considering a bill permitting doctors to give contraceptive information to their patients at their discretion, to publish such information in medical journals and to send and receive it through the mails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIRTH CONTROL | 2/20/1931 | See Source »

George Bernard Shaw's first talking picture appeared at the Repertory theatre Monday without creating anything like the stir that one might expect of the work of the man the Theatre Guild modestly describes as "the greatest living English writer." This apparent lack of interest could go down to one of the few instances of Bostonian theatrical taste. Considered from any angle, this production is dull slow and humorless. The only reason for its being filmed apparently was that Mr. Shaw wrote it, but unfortunately his reasons for indulging in its composition seem unfathomable...

Author: By B. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/18/1931 | See Source »

Forthwith friends of "Governor" Hagerman created a stir in speech and writing that must have reminded him of all the Indian drums he had heard, rolling together. The New Mexican press unitedly expressed such sentiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Pow-Wow Man | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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