Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fraternity does not consider Belle Livingston's presence in town a serious threat. The members feel that the fine lines of the "Drunkard" should never be sullied by professional lips, but lift rather to the deeper emotional abilities of an amateur group...
...much about music, they said, and about world peace. During his incarceration since June 22 in a Nazi jail, Musical Thinker Roiderer has asked for and obtained copies of Musical America and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. To Germans the Roiderer case is of vital interest because it tends to lift the veil of secrecy from Adolf Hitler's so-called Peoples Tribunal (TIME, May 14). The P. T. stands for that "New Justice" which Nazis have proudly placed above the German Supreme Court. Judges on the P. T. bench are all personal appointees of Realmleader Hitler. Five are aviators...
...April correspondents were told that Der Führer would "lift the veil" from this Four-Year Plan when he addressed 1,000,000 German workers massed at Tempelhofer Field on Labor Day, May 1, 1933. On the historic May Day, the 1,000,000 assembled German workers cheered Leader Hitler to the echo when he roared: "German people, remember yourselves! We want to imbue, nay burn, into the minds of our people: German people, you are not a second class people, even if a thousand times the world wants to have it that way, YOU ARE NOT INFERIOR...
...London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors. The new President was so impressed that...
John Bole was spending ten days in jail in a small, law-abiding town because he had solicited a passing car for a lift. But John Bole was no common hitchhiker. On the jailer and the jailer's wife he made a strongly mysterious impression; his effect on the jailer's daughter was even stronger. When his time was up she insisted on going with him, though he made it clear to her that he was only a visitor on earth, would be off to some other place on the first day of autumn. More, he was fleeing...