Word: hoist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flight had been long under way, word was received on board the U. S. S. Richmond that he had been forced down by engine trouble off the Island of Suderoe, in the Faroe group. The destroyer hurried to his rescue, assisted by a British trawler. In an effort to hoist the plane on board the trawler, part of the lifting mechanism broke, cracking the propeller, demolishing the port wing. Lieut. Wade, after so much dared, so much achieved, saw his plane in ruin and relinquished the flight. Smith went on, reaching Iceland, where he and Nelson prepared for their jump...
...incorrigibles, notably James Cabell, endeavor with some small degree of success, to hoist their less agile following to their own high places of the spirit. But even Cabell permits himself a not infrequent glance at the dwellers in the piquant values of material dalliance...
Glenn Hunter (Merton of the Movies) is the only young American with any semblance of a reputation. Roland Young's glorious portrayal of General Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciples, now running in Manhattan, gives him a foothold somewhere below the niches of the famous. He may hoist himself upwards by other, more difficult performances. To those who rush with arguments regarding Leslie Howard, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacob Ben-Ami, Geoffrey Kerr, it need only be said that all of them first saw the sunlight and the footlights on the opposite side of the Atlantic...
...scandal," concerning the fake antique Gothic statuary in American museums, is investigated by Rene Gimpel, noted French connoisseur. Gimpel says the scandal is faked but the statuary is genuine. Once more the press is hoist by its own sensation...
...pointing to a glorious past of accidents. Indeed no more than three or four weeks ago one train, by its speed, created a short circuit and an ensuing riot of three thousand; while but a short time before another train speeded its wheels off and forced the passengers to hoist themselves up for air by ladder. In the Londoners' challenge there is no mention of the comparative velocities of London and New York cab horses. The only possible explanation of this omission is that the London cab horse is so glaringly inferior that no amount of effrontery could...