Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speak. Twentieth Century is good fun, slick, wild and improbable. John Barrymore is expert as the producer because, like the rest of his family, he is endowed with a touch of the spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with a strand of Magdalen's hair), a door bell going Ting-a-ling-a-ling, an old family servitor, a Southern belle you-alling in crinolines...
...that Science and Religion do not conflict. Dr. Compton has lately been brought to a similarly reverent attitude by the "free will" behavior of electrons and photons. But there are two men who are at home on both the mathematical and experimental fronts and who, on the interpretative front, lift highly articulate voices to trace for interested laymen the whole reach of modern physics and to discuss its philosophical repercussions. They are Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Sir James Hopwood Jeans...
That being the case, it seems to us that, Cambridge's "Millionaire School Committee" might give Harvard University a lift in a few deserving spots. For example, they might give Harvard a donation to help finish the fence along, Quincy Street or to keep some of its libraries open. As a matter of fact, the statue of John Harvard could do with little polishing or a cost of paint. We couldn't come out flatly and ask the Cambridge school Committee members with real estate valued at $2.409,873.59 to give Harvard a donation. But a word to the wise...
...might also do far more; he might go beyond negation, beyond futilitarianism, beyond disgust with life as it is, to discover, and use as a horizon, life as it might be. "Come in at the Door" is a novel well worth reading--even reading twice. If March can lift himself from the slough of despond and find direction, his next novel will be a more meaning contribution
Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two. When Gable and Colbert hail a Ford for a lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...