Word: lift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book of a U. S. poet who finds his country pleasant, the world not wholly bad. Delicately, temperately, he writes of "Springtime along the Pennsylvania Railroad," "Tenement Children," "Keats," "Friendship," "The Lackawanna Ferry." A flowery hedge, a regiment of roses, the filagrees of a frozen brook?these lift his heart; and his eye is quick to value those exquisite banalities of everyday life that the gross cannot see, and the great have not time to write about. When he sings of the "Pony Express," "The First Steamboat on the Mississippi," "The Coming of the Railroad," he strains his note; these...
...Manhattan, it rained that Sunday. None the less, long queues of people waited to enter the church where Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick was to preach. When these people came out, they talked among themselves of how Dr. Fosdick had said that, sooner than lift a finger to aid another war, men of his cloth would go to Leavenworth...
...Nation. Let me assure you, gentlemen, that those things are untrue. My program is eminently constructive and eminently logical. I believe that Mexico cannot be a great country as long as it has 12,000,000 of human beings who have for several centuries been in perpetual slavery. To lift the moral and economic level of these men I believe to be a work of reconstruction that will benefit not only Mexico but all other countries with which Mexico has relations ; because it is not to be doubted that with the awakening of the spirit of industry among those unfortunate...
People who sit in the glittering horseshoes shoes of great opera houses, in the orchestras of famed concert halls, have cold faces, bright clothes. To brilliance, to frigidity runs their taste. Let a soprano pour out her soul in a fine frenzy of enthusiasm, they lift their eyebrows, clap and go away to their clubs or cabarets. But let her be a coloratura, let her sing with no emotion but with brilliance, with coldness, these cold, bright people in their turn give way to a fine frenzy of enthusiasm. Melba- they smothered her under mountains of flowers; Patti-they took...
...Lift's Greatest Game. The story deals mainly with baseball, past and present, and includes the sinking of the Titanic. The old ball player's son survives, returns after 20 years to pitch the Giants to victory in the World's Series, shames the father for deserting the family in 1904. Probably one of the ten worst pictures. The heroine even wears curls down her back...