Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BLOODED KILLERS TO SHOOT INNOCENT CITIZENS WHO SOUGHT TO DEFEND THEIR HOME. In the drab parlor, where John Crempa and his young son and daughter, all arrested last fortnight, sat fiercely brooding, a Roman Catholic priest intoned the service for the dead. Then Sophie Crempa's corpse was lifted in its coffin through a window, lowered to the yard for the crowd's inspection. John Crempa, wounded in hand and leg by deputies' bullets, was carried out on the porch in the arms of a husky friend. The thin, overwrought widower stopped crying long enough to lift...
...lift the whole thing from the back of the friend in front and raise the outermost fold on each side so that page four shows on top. A paper clip will hold the inner two folds to page one and guarantee reaching the field...
...tokens, proceeded to roll the ivories and completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift his hood and close the petcock on his gas line so that when released he would proceed only a few yards before the car stopped for good. Saloons ran all night long, bartenders were far too busy to prepare anything more complicated than rye-&-ginger ale. Most widespread feature...
...While Jules Romains excels in his portraits of ambitious and resourceful men and outlines their maneuvers with skill, his characters are for the most part singularly even and controlled individuals. They may be troubled or at peace, but they are not ravaged by the intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature. In revealing how the "private" activities of men-their moods, love affairs, desires, plans-are influenced by such remote social and political developments as strikes or the threat of war, Romains has made an impressive...
...Turner, stamping about in a heavy Los Angeles fog one night last week. With eight other pilots, he was awaiting the start of the dangerous Bendix Trophy Race across the nation to Cleveland in the opening event of the 15th annual National Air Races. Presently the fog began to lift, allowed the nine racers to take off in the dark. Last to roar down the field, just as dawn broke, was Pilot Cecil A. Allen, 33, alone in a tiny, fat, Gee Bee monoplane, immensely powerful, but frowned on by the air-wise because of its radical design. Down...