Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly starved, but hung on, sold a few "poems," helped edit Puck for six months, got a lift here, a boost there, made friendships with other writers, editors, artists. Markets opened and checks began dropping in. His peak year was 1913 when he was taken into the Players' Club ("the best club in the world") and covered the World Series in verse for United Press...
...dare we lift our eyes to Thee, for we are guilty as a nation of tolerating the practice of vile mob murder of men. . . . Cleanse our hearts, we beseech Thee, of the dark sin of race prejudice...
Philadelphia exhibitors, whose business has been cut up to 40%, begged Denis Cardinal Dougherty to lift the boycott he had urged upon all films...
...eminent physiologists in a leading American university. . . . They pointed out that the effect from the smoke was not only the same as eating in regard to increase of blood sugar, but also that, the symptoms of a low sugar concentration, fatigue and irritability, were temporarily relieved. . . . This 'lift' can be enjoyed as often as desired...
...priest has never before been seen. From his headquarters at Nazareth, N. C. he goes out for a week or two with an assistant and a Negro cook. Besides the chapel seating 75, ST. PETER contains a study a kitchen, sleeping quarters. Often dependent upon freight trains for a lift from siding to siding. Father Murphy pay: a minimum $18 for short hauls, ten full fares for long hauls as compared with the usual charge of 25 fares for private cars...