Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Anne Morgan staged a prizefight in Madison Square Garden for the benefit of the War-wracked French peasants, it was not because she was a spinster who had sublimated her activities in "uplift" work. It was because she was a self-determined business woman and a fight was a good stunt. And today, at 54, she more than ever represents and leads independent members of her sex. A business woman, says Miss Morgan, is best characterized by "her utter disregard of business habits...
...dearest enemy, Anti-Saloon League. His parents took him away to Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions out of 287 cases during his 15-month term-an astounding record. On such food the inquisitor...
...Abramovitch is Anne Nichols' new production, with a cast of almost 100. It tells of a Russian Jew, whose ideal is uplift of humanity, whom poverty drives to amass a fortune in the U. S., who later loses both fortune and a beloved son, thereupon re-dedicates himself to his original, unmercenary ideal of uplifting humanity. Just how the elevation is to be accomplished is not divulged, but the End of Ends is when "all men love one another like brothers...
...Suzzallo's "hardboiled" stand. It was curious to recall that Governor Roland H. Hartley of Washington, Dr. Suzzallo's foe in the state's recent politico-educational upset, once styled child welfare work, which is what the Oregon teachers were virtually proposing for themselves, as "this uplift gush. . .altruistic twaddle...
Miss Bainter is most opt mistie about the modern stage. "People often come and ask me to join some uplift society or other, but nothing is to be accomplished by these methods. The drama is going through a cycle, and will come through stronger than ever. The present phase is just transient...