Word: uplifting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...parlor uplift themes...
...uplift movement has hit two universities this week. At Yale the seniors have voted that there shall be no intoxicating liquors served at the class banquet in June or at future class reunions. At Syracuse the students in the department of agriculture have placed a ban on smoking at the annual school banquet to be held shortly after Easter. And Billy Sunday a thousand miles away! --Boston Transcript...
...theology has run the gauntlet of evolutionary doctrine and come out with new methods of appeal; it has emerged from its struggle with science modified but strengthened. Religion now finds itself in closer contact with life, and there is a deeper recognition of its meaning for movements of social uplift. Doctrines differ and forms of worship still stand apart, but the emphasis is more than ever on the things which unite, less than ever on the things which divide. Not yet have the protagonists of unity reached their goal. But the churches are more joined in co-operation and mutual...
...with a capital "S," is "real" and "vital." Even the conclusion, in which the heroine throws over the Open Hearth rather than lose her life-long lover, leaves a suspicion that perhaps the author retains a conviction that to be a Boy Scout Leader or the Coach of an Uplift Nine is after all the noblest ambition of Young American Manhood. Mr. Murdock's story is shorter, and laid right here in Cambridge--Memorial clock strikes nine, and the streets are covered with slush, and all that sort of thing--but it is still further away from life as most...
France, on the other hand, has a great ideal, the "blue sky limit" as M. LeRoux phrased it, which looks toward the uplift of humanity and the altruism of man, not the "objects on the ground" of the Germans. France is not seeking aggrandizement but rather the protection of her women and children, the preservation of her homes...