Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four broken chairs were scattered in the mess. The men ruined their clothes and looked more like workmen employed in an abattoir than detectives." Third-degree methods, says Lavine, are sometimes applied to women. "He [the detective] merely shows what a big, strong guy he is by starting to lift her from the ground by her hair. That usually makes her feel more like talking. Or, especially if she isn't young and attractive, he may expectorate in her face. Some detectives chew tobacco...
...rail into the wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big mainsail was so ungainly that Captain Walters had to swing it by the topping lift; her topsails were shapeless sacks. When Thebaud had won the race, twice round the course with an extra lap up Gloucester harbor, by 15 minutes, Bluenose's sails were rushed to a loft to be recut...
This afternoon Sir George Henschel will lift the baton he first raised fifty years ago, and will signal the Boston Symphony Orchestra to begin the same program that they played under his direction at their first concert. To Harvard men the occasion will be the anniversary of a most valuable and delightful aspect of life in Cambridge. There has always been a very close association between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Harvard College...
...From the lift stepped Dudley Guy Gray, vice president in charge of traffic. He walked toward the president's office, stopped to say hello to a few clerks. They noticed he was in a good mood, an increasingly rare thing in this slim, purposeful man of 61, who had been in the railroad game since his boyhood, with Western Maryland for 17 years...
...Gray entered the president's office, Mr. Springer left. The door was closed. The stenographers and clerks did not hear the lock snap shut. But before Mr. Springer reached the lift the sound of angry voices came from the room. Then, in startling succession, came a fusillade of five shots. The outer office froze into silent, motionless attention. Before it was broken there was a round of five more shots, the sound of glass falling...