Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to contrast them with the situation in 1917 and 1918 when almost none was so poor as to do me reverence and I hold that even the wild and lowly flowers of the field* have a right to enjoy a spell of sunshine after they have struggled to lift their heads on cloudy days...
...Scutari hospital, where Actress Evans, oil lamp in hand, ministers to a rejected lover whom history so far has missed, and in London 50 years later. Here the faint recollection of her deeds by officials who have come to decorate her gives the play an ironical and momentary lift. What The Lady with a Lamp need's is more lifts. A Widow in Green- Sue (Claiborne Foster) meets Tommy Shannon (Ernest Glendenning) in an English tea shop. To him the brief relationship that follows is delightful companionship. To Spinsterish Sue it is a prelude to marriage. When he suddenly...
...scene occurred on the road to market, against a background of misshapen stars. Basso Roderic Cross filled out her front legs, did the philosophizing. The silent hindquarters, unmentioned on the program, were Student Warren Lee's. He maneuvered the eloquent tail-switching, the quizzical lift of a hip which matched such lines as these...
...last week. Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford was in the second week of his five-week campaign to raise funds locally for Unemployment relief. Meantime the committee's sub-committee on Employment Plans & Suggestions drafted a 6,000-word document telling the U. S. what it must do to lift itself out of the Depression...
...diving boards are longer than the old ones and were installed in order to conform to a new requirement of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association. The purpose of the new ruling was to require a board which would give more of a lift than did the former 14-foot ones. This will add considerably to the grace and variety of diving...