Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors...
Neurotics are the favorite topic of dreary modern fiction. Bilby's Doll is a neurotic whose hallucinations are logically built upon the terrific shock of her childhood. But the lore of her witchcraft, and the superstitions of her New England neighbors, lift her out of the psychiatric laboratory into the worthy realm of fiction. Author Forbes formalizes her fantastics with a prose borrowed in part from the 17th century when witches were common subject of puritanical debate...
...disloyal to the World (TIME, May 14). The New York Telegram (Scripps-Howard Newspaper) last week hired Columnist Broun because he is a liberal with a following. Said Mr. Broun: "I am glad to be on the Telegram . . . here at last I have a spot where I can lift my voice without being bothered by the fear that perhaps I am not precisely in tune with the rest of the choir. I never did like part singing...
Heard Bishop Fisher of India saying: "What we need is to restore the passion of the Church in a world-wide mission and lift Christ above the entanglements of the nations," and pointing out that college students regard missions, missionaries, and missionary work with complete and dismal apathy...
Fine touches like this lift the rest of the company into proper importance. Peggy Wood Plays Portia with a humor--in the Elizabethan sense--that erases the memory of wooden Shakespearean heroines. And she is not Junoesque. Bassanio's suit was somehow less plausible for the youth of his friend Antonio; the lines of both were carefully read. Shock-headed and slant-eyed Rummey Brent gave nonchalance to Launcelot Gobbo, and little more can be done with...