Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story of a young duchess who marries her steward, only to be persecuted and finally strangled to death at the command of her disapproving brothers, The Duchess of Malfi. swirls with the dark, cruel, guilty emotions of the Elizabethan theatre. Its splendid imaginativeness, its impassioned poetry, lift it above mere violence and gore. But it is horrifying rather than terrifying: there is so much bloodshed at the end it is impossible to keep stabs...
...Lower Merion High. Then there is Henry Solaliac, star of last year's freshman quintet, a 6 foot, 2 inch athlete with plenty of experience. Sid Levinson, from Rochester, Walter Reinhard, formerly of Weequahic High, Newark; and John Townsend, of Friends Central, Philadelphia, also are being counted on to lift the Quaker court fortunes. There are, as well, Gene Davis, the sophomore foot-baller; Ray Frick, football captain-elect: Johnny Dutcher, who also played football; Eugene Weisberg and George Dietrick. Reserves from the 1939 team include Tony Caputo, who doubles as a baseball pitcher, and Tom McNichol, the latest...
...Chungking home, across the Yangtze from the city proper, Nelson Johnson rises at seven, eats a hearty breakfast (Sundays he has the staff in for waffles and chicken). He rides to the Embassy Office in a four-coolie sedan with specially strong bamboo lift-poles. There he reads and answers 40-odd telegrams from China sore-spots each day. If there is a big rush on, he helps decode messages. Some errand may take him to the Foreign Minister, less frequently to the Finance Minister, very seldom to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In the evening he occasionally gives a stag dinner...
...Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu soft-soaped the Soviet Union: "We are convinced of the similarity existing between the Soviet's affirmed policy of peace and the Rumanian policy of independence." Earlier, George Tatarescu, the new pro-Ally Premier, made a bid for democratic sympathy when he promised to lift the hitherto strict Rumanian press censorship by allowing newspapers to give vent to "impartial criticism and the voicing of grievances against the Government...
...Dutchmen in the East Indies live the life of Reilly. No white man is so poor he cannot afford at least two servants at salaries ranging around $8 a month, and the usual staff of a well-to-do household numbers six or seven. No white woman need lift her little finger around the house. U. S. films now arrive in Java, Sumatra and Borneo with little delay, and few are the Dutch Colonials who do not own a U. S.-made car. Tinned foods from home are always available, but the most famous East Indian dish is Ryst-Tafel...