Word: uplifter
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Among the equestriennes could have been seen blonde Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, grand marshal of the crusade, onetime belle of the Weston-Super-Mare élite, later reclaimed for evangelical uplift among the fallen women of West London, later captured by gaolers for over-strenuous female Suffrage onslaughts, presently flying about speechmaking to the effect that...
...done anything to the playwright. On the contrary they have been very nice about buying tickets and even sitting through entire productions. We wish Miss Nichols and her pals would lay off Apple Sauces, Abies Irish Roses, and White Collarses and give us more dress suit dramas. We favor uplift. Yah! "Y'rs. "GEORGE. "HENRY. "HERM...
...Randolph and in the lounges of clubs, pages shouting as they make the rounds. "Two sober young gentlemen for a dinner at the Somerset." "Four assorted blonds and brunettes for a coming out party at the Copley." And in the Freshman Halls. "Fourteen well-recommended boys. The Brattles to uplift the boys, the boys to educate our daughters...
...England, George Bernard Shaw, in the course of a debate with Hilaire Belloc, described William Jennings Bryan, leader of the prosecution in the Scopes case, as "a man with an extraordinary uplift and no discoverable brains of any kind...
...Parker '98, music critic, in a review of the same performance, speaking of the immense amount of preparation involved, said. "In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper pursue such endless and exacting toll. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. . . .Self expression and release are the better words with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...