Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going on in Vichy. The story originated in Bern, was broadcast by the German radio, picked up and repeated by the British radio. Germany claimed that its radio had broadcast a denial with the story, that the British radio had left out the denial and repeated the story to stir up bad feeling between France and Germany. Maybe this was true. Or maybe Germany just wanted to tell France what could happen if the new collaborators didn't collaborate...
...impressionistic camera work of Photographer Gregg Toland (The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home). It was not a picture to be disregarded or forgotten. But it was distinctly non-Hollywood. Whether Welles and R. K. O. had a surebox-office bust or a sensation that would stir up more fun in the next six weeks than Russell Bird well stirred up for Gone With the Wind, depended in great measure on how wrathfully Columnist Parsons got up from her seat...
Ralph Ingersoll of PM has just published his articles on England in book form, entitled "Report on England." These dispatches were written from England in November, and caused quite a stir by their claim that "Hitler had London in September, but didn't know it." Mr. Ingersoll wasn't there at the time, and the general consensus is that those who were there didn't know it either. The evidence he adduces is that on September 8 water mains were "smashed right and left, all over town." "The streets were full of rubble, blown up from direct hits, filled with...
...Kirkpatrick noted: "It is significant that districts where unofficial strikes (that is to say, strikes not organized by the trade unions) have cropped up happen to be districts where the Communist Party is most active. Communist agents have been found circulating in factories and among dock workers trying to stir up trouble...
...plants and Epipsychidions, there was no more successful softener than Sapper Shelley. "You are a funny people, you Shelleyites," Explorer Henry M. Stanley warned an officer of the Shelley Society. "You are playing-at a safe distance yourself, maybe, with fire. In spreading Shelley you are indirectly helping to stir up the great socialist question . . . the one question which bids fair to swamp you all. . . ." Thomas Carlyle rudely cut short one Shelleyite rhapsody. "Yon man Shelley," he growled, "was just a scoundrel, and ought to have been hanged...