Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Land may well miss them, for the little auk is a staple of their food supply, "Eskimo lollipops" as Curator Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History calls them. In Greenland the Eskimos will beg the Goddess Nivikkaa, sitting at the bottom of the sea, to lift her lamp and let the little auks come up again...
...Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their lugger to another island. Captain Nichols, skipper of the boat, is a shifty but unashamed scoundrel. Blake is a nice-looking youngster with a secret on his mind. When a gale blows them to Kanda, a beautiful and peaceful island, none of them is in a hurry...
...theatrical circles, Berle is best known for his amiable inability to resist the temptation to "lift" the material of other comedians, to such an extent that a fellow comic. Jack Osterman, walking down Broadway with still a third comedian, and seeing Berle billed in front of a theatre, is supposed to have suggested, "Let's go in and catch our acts...
...think that J shall never sec A poem like the G.O.P.; A P. whose hungry mouth is prest Against the Treasury's flowing breast; A P. that gathers Tax each day. And makes us lift our arms to fay; A P. that thinks that we have got A pair of cltiekctis in each...
...paunch in, found his legs behaving like Leon Errol's. McLarnin hit him on the side of his head with a straight right-hand blow. The Errol legs sagged. McLarnin hit right-left-right-left. Leonard tried to back away, could not move: tried to hold, could not lift his arms. McLarnin looked at the referee, who put an arm about Leonard's shoulder, led him to his corner...