Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unforgivably commonplace and unimaginative. In The American Language, H. L. Mencken complained: "Our maid-of-all-work in [the profanity] department is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudge does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah . . . Put the second person pronoun and the adjective old in front of it and scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon. Worse, it is frequently toned down to s.o.b. ... In Standard Italian there are no less than forty congeners...
...reporter* this week. Would he meet with Truman at a "mutually suitable place?" Said Stalin: "I have already stated before that there is no objection to a meeting." He also said that Russia would "consider" a joint peace statement with the U.S. And he would be glad to lift the Berlin blockade, on his old terms. White House reaction: Truman is still willing to meet Stalin, in Washington...
Added another White House aide: "Say a country requests technical aid from the United States to lift its standard of living...
...chair lift at Mad River Glen in Waitsfield, Vermont, started operations for the first time, and time honored centers like Manchester, Vermont; Thorne Mountain in Jackson, New Hampshire; and North Conway, New Hampshire, reported "good" skiing with most tows and lifts in operation...
...does, he likes to tell stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried one, "don't you Americans ever do anything by hand...