Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stored-up sugar into the blood stream where it becomes available for work, pleasure or refreshment. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. focused the magnifying eye of its advertising department upon that minuscule chip in the large mosaic of scientific facts about tobacco, burst forth with this advice: "Get a Lift with a Camel...
...Haggard & Greenberg had not reasoned so far. And Dr. McCormick decided that Camel advertising, which no longer uses the "Lift" slogan, was presumptuous. A non-smoker himself, Dr. McCormick bought nine Flemish Giant hares, had two senior medical students from the University of Toronto poison them with nicotine. The nicotine dissolved out of a single cigaret soaked in water is enough to make a grown man deathly sick. The solution of three cigarets will throw an adult into such convulsions that he will probably die within 15 minutes. Eight of Dr. McCormick's hares died of nicotine poisoning...
Striking the Solstice keynote, No. 2 Nazi Goring cried: "No church has been built so beautiful, so great, so mighty and so strong in faith as the dome of God over this mountain! . . . Let us lift up our hearts to the ideal of our Führer rather than listen to the chattering of quarrelsome clerics. ... A miracle of the Almighty has been performed through Adolf Hitler. . . . Today our shining armor is filled with strength again! . . . This is the result of this miracle...
...industry. Some people cocked a skeptical eye at the mushrooming of William Fox or the Brothers Warner but certainly Paramount Publix seemed a citadel of cinematic conservatism. Indeed, Paramount was the $300,000,000 medium through which the House of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. had seen fit to lift the film industry to the financial equal of steel and railroads. But Paramount had an Achilles heel. In the process of acquiring the world's longest theatre chain (1,600), the company had wisely paid in common stock instead of in cash from the proceeds of bond issues as did other...
...come into the midst of this city, which, in the minds of most Americans, has consecrated itself to the worship of Wall Street," announced the political priest, "I come not to criticize or berate individuals. I come to lift my voice on the doorsteps of a modern Temple of Mammon only to condemn a system of private money control...