Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Liberal Club and the Socialist Club have attempted to arouse interest in discussion of political and social events, but their hard-working efforts have not been able to stir the molasses of an indifferent community. Perhaps, with their fathers riding on the crest of the stock market, the sons have considered as settled all economic problems...
...attorney for the late William B. Ward. The Kent reply to the Morrow attack attributed earnings declines to general depression, stressed the company's sound cash position. "In times of depression," said the management's letter to stockholders, "there will appear designing individuals who will seek to stir up dissension and seize upon it to accomplish selfish ends. . . . We must . . . warn you against any scheme . . . which may have as its object stock manipulation for the benefit of the few." Between-the-lines readers saw in this statement a suggestion that a Morrow victory might result in a merger...
...pending litigation between his parents and his guardian, Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey (TIME, Aug. 11), young Ricci had been forbidden to leave New York State unguarded by police. Two stalwart officers accompanied him to the very stage of Mechanics Hall, but the boy was apparently unmoved by the stir they caused, or by the presence in the front row of his watchful father. With great self-possession he scraped a little curtsey, gave a rarely luminous performance of the Concerto, returned to his towering escorts...
...first pitch. It was Woody English, wiry Chicago third-baseman, coming up in the tenth with one out and the score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing in the run that won the game for the Cubs, 4-3. The big crowd went home jubilant. In a crucial series with Brooklyn...
...JACK* Cry all, "Alack!" And wring your hands in vain! SAM, JACK, and BEN, Cry all, "Amen!" In triplicate refrain! For you, I fear, This flying year By AMY are stir passed, Whom all the new Johnsonian crew Now welcome home at last...