Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest, or busy themselves arranging shoulder pads on which to bear the weight of the Chain (about seven pounds for each shoulder). In the afternoon, guests assemble before the stage of the Vassar outdoor theatre; an orchestra of strings and woodwinds strikes up a martial air; the chain-bearers lift their load, oftentimes sneezing because of the dusty pollen of the daisies. Slowly they circle the stage where the Seniors stand, march up a hill, split their column into two lines through which the Seniors, who have followed, pass...
...came to the U. S. when he was nine. His father, also a conductor, was a friend of Liszt, Wagner, von Billow, Auer, Rubinstein; he led an orchestra in which Walter made his first public appearance-as a cymbal player. The youth was so nervous that he could not lift the cymbals. Later he played in his father's orchestra with the second violins to learn how instrument players follow the conductor's beat. Recently he owned the largest private music library in the world, presented it to the New York Symphony Society. Called "Dean of American Conductors...
Just as the form of the sonnet seems to lend itself to reflections on love and beauty, so does the very lift and swing of the limericks suggest ideas which would be absolutely impossible on the printed page. One cannot imagine Tennyson producing limericks Or Milton. The thought is revolving. On the other hand, the conjunction of Rabelais and blank verse is equally incongruous...
...these and in many other fields it has already attained distinction. Its venerable oil paintings, somewhat dimmed by the vapors of hot soups and coffee, its stained glass windows, more impressive, though less frequently noted, than the stained table cloths, all have served to embellish the hall and lift it from the ranks of cafeterias and side-arm banquet places...
...shame, a burning shame is this to the lofty toned America of 1917 and 1918. A lasting insult to the men of 1776 who fought our battles and won our freedom for us. The writer is not a swearing man; if he were he would lift aloft the Henry Watterson war-cry in the late Hohenzollern strife and paraphrasing it devoutly cry: 'To hell with the name Rainier from Mount Tacoma...