Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politics under democracy--that is, of practical politics, of the polities of job getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae of all the successful political Barnums of American history--that, and that...
...VENETIAN GLASS NEPHEW-Elinor Wylie - Doran ($2.00). "Peter Innocent beheld a golden griffin lift his wings to fan the air; a stag of azure glass dappled with the same gold, stepped with a fairy pride across the expanse of Chinese lacquer which separated him from his mate, and the two, meeting, caressed each other with delicate gestures of affection. A hummingbird, with feathers blown in pearl color and crimson, flew from his perch, alighting on the leafy chandelier; the spray that received him bent and swayed and from its largest rose a petal drifted to the floor...
...Come what will,' he said, "I will not lift my singer to help them. But," he added, "I've got nothing against Major Moore and Mr. Getchell, so I won't spoil the crowd for them by telling your CRIMSON readers how the game is coming out." Despite the pleas of the editors, he was adamant, so this, the first of his offerings is without any slant on the Harvard-Rensselaer game. The other games are,, Joe leclares, sure to result as follows...
...last week a voice tumbled out of the sky that made the clerk in the Mineola Courthouse lift his head from his elbow and open his eyes. He stared around him, and discovered that all the people had run into the square, where they stood, jabbering together and pointing up to heaven...
...heels of minute dancing slippers? Not at all. The dance was the odious "Charleston," condemned by all dancing masters last year, now adopted in deference to popular taste, after vast modifications. No flourish of trumpets attends its innocent pattern. Dancing masters stand up straight; they do not lift their toes from the floor, or walked pigeontoed, box-angled, snake-hipped; 45 degrees to the right is the step, then 45 to the left...