Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Mortgage Lifter. Before they plunge into their descriptions of breeds and crossbreeds and their careful detailing of modern packinghouse procedures, Authors Towne and Wentworth attempt to lift their hero out of the sty and onto the pedestal. A pig, they say, can swim, pull a small cart, even substitute for a bird dog or a child's pony. And he can be housebroken : "By nature he is one of the cleanest of animals...
...feet of seven-eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the wispy customer was just another farmer, in town for the day, buying rope to break a balky horse or fix a hay lift in the barn...
...more cynical observers think that Godfrey's greatest audience bait is the faintly smutty double meaning. "Godfrey can do more with the lift of an eyebrow than De Maupassant could with a volume," says one adman. "Whenever he ad-libs he talks himself right into the bathroom." Such scatological shockers as the miniature outhouse he used as a TV prop invariably explode titillated giggles in his studio and television audiences...
Some critics maintain he never made it. They consider that Waugh's green seas and white breakers lack the seasick lift and crash of the real thing, that his notion of daylight was a drab one, and that his wet brown rocks might as well have been chocolate ice cream. The public disagrees...
...only 4½ months ago, soared 4⅝ points to 26⅞. Admiral Corp., which jumped from 18 to 29¼ a few months ago and then split its stock two for one, was back up to 23½ again. By week's end, thanks to the lift of the TV shares, many another stock had hit a bull market high. The Dow-Jones industrial average had risen 4.95 points to 205.03, the highest since July...