Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peterkin has skillfully given a convincing portrayal of the community as a whole. The best of the individual portraits is that of the old negro foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly on the plantation. Like Conrad's Nostromo among the cargadores, he stands erect and aloof from his fellows. His contempt for the "pobuckras," as the negroes term white people of mean extraction, is equalled only by the amused disdain in which he holds Yankees and other commercial persons. The little white church in the grove he has never entered...
Members of Eliot House received yesterday a request for donations to a fund to erect a statue of the late President Eliot on the terrace in front of the House. Contributions will be received in the Dining Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week...
...attempts to found a society which was in every sense of the word progressive, and which represented the furthest advance yet made in improving the general condition of a whole people. In a city which was probably hit harder than any other in Europe, the Socialists had managed to erect splendid state-owned apartment houses and to build up a magnificent municipal system of public utilities; in Vienna their dreams were realized in brick and mortar and it stood as both a rebuke and a challenge to the other nations...
Herbert Haseltine looks like a British cavalry major, with waxed mustaches, compressed lips, erect carriage. A U. S. citizen, he was born in Rome in 1877, lives in Paris. Famed are his sculptures of gassed, War-worn horses, Les Revenants, in the London War Museum...
Height, 6 ft. 3 in. Weight, about 200 lb. Form, very erect; unusually long limbs, big hands, feet and joints; slightly sunken chest; large head (26⅞ in. around...