Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleague Mrs. Sarojini Xaidu when she was ill. She was staying at a very fine hotel. Everyone there was extremely excited in expectation of the great man's visit. When they were all keyed up a humble looking man dressed like a coolie stepped into the lift. The liftman, not troubling to look at the Intruder, turned him out with a surly 'Get out, you. Who do you think you are? Mahatma Gandhi?' Mr. Gandhi said nothing but climbed quietly up the stairs and paid his visit to Mrs. Naidu...
...development: the meeting between Lyon and Swanson, a giggling scene with Swanson and Barbara Kent that is supposed to be so very jolly, and many other moments when Swanson shows a tendency toward coyness not at all becoming to her years. Indiscreet is uneven, but its moments of farce lift some of the curse of coyness. Hilarious is the scene with the ice cream cones, which starts when Swanson spies a child who is crying because he has spilled his cone on the sidewalk. Hilarious are the window breaking scenes, and the scenes in which Swanson tries to live...
...feats of strength, speed and agility in one day is hard even with the sun shining. Weary, disheveled, muscle-sore were the seven contestants at the day's end, but for one man up went great cheers which he, wrapped in a blanket, acknowledged with a tired lift of his hand-cheers for Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger, Penn's "one-man track team." He had won the decathlon two years in succession and he won it again, hands down, as everyone knew he would, beating his own carnival record in spite of bad conditions...
...been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening was a tremendous woodcock pie around whose crest were the skulls of 20 woodcocks, a replica of the pie which every year the Irish Free State sends to the King of England. Near the lift is a British coat-of-arms...
This posthumous story by the late Henry Sydnor Harrison is more of a sermon than a novelet, may possibly help lift you to a state of grace if you are still bemoaning stockmarket losses. Author Harrison wrote so cheerfully you may like it anyway...