Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universities wish to bombard Senator Long and the politics of Louisiana let them go to it. They could search further and fare worse in any search for targets worthy of their fire. But a certain restraint in the written word is always advisable, particularly for amateurs seeking to lift the political scalp of such a wily old professional as Huey Long. New York...
...season, not excluding Eugene Speicher's magnificently painted figures at the Rehn Galleries (TIME, Jan. 22). Artist Brook's good friend Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the Times went further, called it "a particularly arresting embodiment of youth, animated by the sort of resilient 'lift' that sculptors know as the Greek inhalation." Alex Brook's paintings are no longer for amateur collectors. Admirers of resilient lift and Greek inhalation will have to pay $1,800 for Summer Wind...
When her limousine broke down on the road from Sandringham House to Cambridge, England's Queen Mary was given a lift in a wheezy little 10 h. p. sedan driven by a brewery's traveling salesman named Percy Titmous...
...squabblers picked as Cuba's new President a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, smart, trim Carlos He via who had been Secretary of Agriculture under President Grau. Whether or not Cubans will accept an "Annapolis President," Senor Hevia's choice caused eyebrows to lift throughout Latin America, created an unfortunate im pression that Mr. Caffery is Cuba's puppeteer. He was said to be displeased with the Annapolis graduate, considering him too radical despite the U. S. discipline...
Although we have no desire to set ourselves up as a modern Mrs. Grundy we cannot refrain from protesting against the weird noises which sometimes emanate from the throats of Technology undergraduates. It is the custom for certain of the more musically inclined to whistle or even lift their voices in song (to be polite) whenever they leave a class. Perhaps it is a song of rejoicing or merely an expression of well being but in any case the result is apt to be distressing to anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot...