Word: sap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like the sap rising in a forest is the morning flow of Manhattanites to work, as packed elevators in tall buildings whisk them upward by thousands to disperse on higher and higher floors. By the time this life has drained out of the office buildings at 5 p.m. and apartment houses and hotels are full for the night, Manhattan elevators have carried 13,000,000 passengers 95,000 miles. In the business of furnishing vertical transportation to New York and other cities, famed Otis Elevator Co. held an unworried near-monopoly from about 1900 to 1926, controlled as much...
...Dublin and Antrim plus a few wandering Bostonians, was scarcely more anonymous than the cast. The White Mountain State has numerous similar organizations to divert vacationists from the cinema, such as the New London Players, Tarn worth's Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan (see p. 56) and Thornton Wilder, begins its season late in July...
Dyed-in-the-wool Conservatives who approve wholeheartedly of Britain's gigantic rearmament scheme accepted the new tax as a necessary evil, other Conservatives feared it would cause dangerous discontent, would sap industrial vitality. Declared Sir Robert Stevenson Home. Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1921 to 1922: "I have talked with many people and there are great perturbations. Unless these are abated in some way I fear some check upon the enterprise of the country." British Radicals, though strongly opposed to rearmament, were delighted that the 1937 Budget hits those with most money, tagged it the "Soak...
...wavered much too far to the Left, carrying her ally Czechoslovakia almost into Soviet arms, Germany can be expected at any time to seize the Teutonic provinces of Czechoslovakia, the League of Nations has been reduced to inconsequence, and its doughty champion, little Dr. Benes, is a splendid sap who still believes in Democracy...
...vigorous opponent of sentimentality towards criminals, Mrs. Bonfils grows saccharine over little domestic tragedies. Nonetheless she hates being known as a sob-sister, snorts: "Most of them are sap sisters." A curious holdover from a bygone age, she still regards her professional harness with the romantic aura of an old firehorse: "I like newspapers and newspaper people and newspaper standards, and I like newspaper news too, and I'm just foolish enough to say so. . . . I'm proud of being, in a very humble way, a member of the good old newspaper gang-the kindest-hearted, quickest-witted...