Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...garden at Longwood, Pa., there were turf terrace seats on which 1,200 people might sit; below these a stage winged and backed by boxwood bushes. Under the stage there were dressing rooms, lounging rooms, large-sized bathrooms. In front of the stage, fountains were ready to lift a shining silver curtain of water...
Allez-Oop is the cry form clever comedians and lively chorines to lift a mediocre revue into a summer hit. The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...
...August issue of the Forum, Frederick S. Hoppin gives an able description of balloon jumping, looks into the future: "Why should we not in time perfect a moderate sized knapsack filled with some highly volatile non-inflammable gas which, strapped comfortably to our back, would be able to lift some 20, 30, or 40 pounds off our burden of flesh? ... If we should ever have knapsacks of unlimited power, our whole present day world will be turned upI side down. ... All the legislatures will be busily engaged in passing laws prohibiting people from leaving the earth too freely, or rules...
Says a Japanese proverb: Bow once to an Eta and you must not lift your head for seven centuries. This unfortunate class, numbering today more than 3,000,000 Japanese (1% of the population), is traditionally made up of the descendants of prisoners taken in battles now remote, forgotten, nameless. Gradually they have been declared "outcast," "defiled," "unclean" and "less than human...
...Epworth League, founded in 1889, for Methodist young people, has similar aims. Its motto is "Look Up, Lift Up"; its membership...