Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obliging gentlemen gasped. First furlong. Backbone, already dizzy, had slipped back. The mile. Prince de Bourbon was lengths in front. The obliging gentlemen loosed their striped collars with trembling forefingers. But ho!-American Flag, in second place, was behaving queerly. Jockey Johnson, on his back, did not lift his hands, raise his whip. But American Flag bounded past Prince de Bourbon as if the latter were shod with billets. To his owner, Samuel D. Riddle, went the stakes, and a great silver basket donated by the late Major August Belmont. The obliging gentlemen thoughtfully relit their masticated, short cigars. They...
...including heat, hail and thunder storms, chills and high winds, have proved disturbing to grain prices, although advancing them. Outside that, the week proved serene and somewhat monotonously cheerful. Perhaps the improvement in what is called "business sentiment" was revealed in the stockmarket, where a tendency was shown to lift prices out of their late doldrums...
Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary drove around the corner from Buckingham Palace to Victoria Station. The morning was cold and misty, but a large crowd was abroad to cheer its Sovereign and his Consort. Many times the King was obliged to lift his "bowler" in acknowledgment of the ovations. Ten minutes later, the boat train with a royal coach attached steamed out of the glass-roofed station, taking their Majesties on their first and well-earned vacation since the accession...
...doubt that Gutzon Borglum loves the memorial. It is the child of his brain and his soul—so dear to him that he has incriminated himself rather than have it marred by a less understanding hand. . . . The work of Gutzon Borglum has a soul. . . . And no one can lift his eyes to the majestic head of Robert Edward Lee on Stone Mountain's breast and doubt it for a moment. ... I personally am of the opinion that no other living sculptor is so ably fitted to carve this equestrian monument as is Gutzon Borglum...
...superintendent of the work, when consulted about the problem, resented any suggestion of the practicability of building the walls around the derrick. At the same time he gave little support to the suggestions that have been advanced, clearing up the entire matter by explaining, "We'll just lift it out through the roof...