Word: aright
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...Helford by name, hope to crash the local 400. Much to their alarm their mother, who makes no pretense of her humble origin, engages the genial old wanderer, unaware of his identity, to help her prepare for the affair. He proceeds to set the girls and the ridiculous Helford aright, and, to their horror, takes the party into his own hands, captivates the first socialite of the town and puts the force of evil to rout with interesting resist. The good old virtues of sincerity, kindness, and tolerance prevail, but near obtrude beyond the veil of genial, exless, humor...
...sheep (John Litel) into a scandal. One night Daisy, lonely and desperate, gets drunk and inadvertently runs away with Litel. Though she immediately returns, the mother triumphantly drives her from the house, her husband believes her guilty. Later when Daisy comes surreptitiously to abduct her child, matters are set aright...
...metropolitan press. Any story pertaining to the University is immediately overated merely because it concerns Harvard; it is a delight for most city editors to attach a riot story for instance, to the name of the University. With distorted publicity there is opprobium and the difficulty of setting matters aright is twice as great...
...attention of the faculty and administrative officers. Not only is it the logical accompaniment to the responsibilities already vested in the individual student by the Four-Course Plan, but it would assist materially the educational policy which is being pursued at Princeton. This policy, if we read it aright, is to introduce the undergraduate to the materials of various fields of knowledge and encourage him to take advantage of them, rather than to confront him with a a lifeless array of facts summarizing the subject; and care is taken to wood out as soon as possible those not capable...
...President or any other dignitaries going and coming at the capital. President Garfield wanted to go to commencement exercises at Williams College in Massachusetts, which his two eldest sons were entering that autumn.* It was an ominously warm day. Special Agent Parke, having seen that all was aright with the presidential train, stood in the ladies' waiting room. He vaguely remembered having been interrupted by a calm, lithe little man who asked a lot of questions. Evidently just another traveler. Agent Parke was watching now for the fine horses that drew the carriage of Secretary of State James Gillespie Blaine...