Word: uplifter
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...figures gave point to the speech of James L. Barton, guiding spirit, who said that none can understand the vast scope of the missionary enterprise of this one denomination unless he has seen the far-flung work of its departments of evangelism, education, philanthropy, sanitation and hygiene, literature, industry, uplift of womanhood...
Osaka, the classic home of the cherry blossom and wickedly slant eyed damsels, become another Goblier Prairie? No doubt the student representatives were asked to address the Uplift Society. It is flattering to the American sense of superiority to find no spot, however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland...
Someone has been trying to hoax Manhattan, and, judging from the furious flood of contributions to the "World", he has succeeded admirably. A man who styles himself "A. K. Fill more, President of the League for the Uplift of Moral Virtue and the Suppression of Unwarranted Pleasure" managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today...
...this Dr. Meiklejohn's stand is well-taken. It is eminently desirable that people should preserve and not vulgarize excellence. But when there are over a hundred million people to uplift, there simply isn't enough education of this degree to go round. Educators would be glad of helpful suggestions but in these Dr. Meiklejohn has unfortunately been remote and vague. And the public as a rule, is only too indifferent to its faults; in fact it rather enjoys hearing what a boor...
...various sorts; the Russian theatre (Old Style) full of knouts and beautiful Nihilists and (New Style) one of those realistic things in which all the characters suffer from acute hydrophobia and pass their time poisoning each other in underground lodgings; an ideal scenario for the modern movie of uplift that grips poor old marriage right by the neck; The Raft?the kind of interlude that is sandwiched in for 15 minutes between the dances at a revue; so they...