Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stowe's story caused enough stir so that a British communiqué was issued calling it a "distortion of the facts." British newspapers (except the Times of London) carried extracts from it and demanded greater frankness from the High Command. Correspondent Stowe and his employers squeezed their "beat" for every drop of blood, even claimed that the Chamberlain Government might have fallen had the full Stowe text reached the British public...
...worst dressed bands in the East. Johnny and the boys are beginning to feel that they're not getting a square deal. But financial arrangements for next season must be made soon, and the band hesitates to speak up. A threat of a hold-out next year would stir up the turgid H.A.A. And some good, long, sour notes would shift the band's expenses from Johhny's term bill to where they belong--among the rest of the H.A.A. disbursements...
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Justice Frank Murphy, only Catholic on the bench, kept mum. But when Edwin Pickett, arguing for the State of Connecticut, declared that it was unlawful to "stir up strife and discontent," Justice James Clark McReynolds interjected that Jesus stirred up "a good deal of trouble in Jerusalem." Mr. Pickett replied: "As I remember my Bible, something was done about that." The Court took the case under advisement...
...ever gone; Theophile Gautier, "Holy ghost of the exotic-aesthetic, satanic-mystical school;" Smithers, the fantastic under-the-counter bookseller, "wonderful and depraved," who aided mightily in finishing off his beloved protege Ernest Dowson with women and drink. "Good people," declared Oscar, "exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination...