Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Conte di Savoia brought Sumner Welles back to Manhattan from his 41-day mission to Europe. Ship-news reporters found the Under Secretary of State cold, erect, impenetrable as usual, impeccable in a double-breasted blue suit with a navy-blue tie on his soft-collared white shirt, holding a blue chesterfield overcoat and Homburg...
...Marine Corps Barracks the band played Sousa's Semper Fidelis, Captain Branson's own Marine Corps Institute March, Victor Herbert's Festival March, The Star-Spangled Banner. Drum Major Hiram H. Florea read a letter from President Roosevelt. When it was all over, Captain Branson, erect in his dark uniform splashed with gold braid, stepped to the microphone and sang the Marine Corps song...
...Huey P. Long was hoisted into place over his grave. Thus fixed in imperishable bronze, the Kingfish stood staring, his expression suffused with a tenderness more than lifelike, over the Old Campus, Baton Rouge, the Mississippi River, and a good part of the State he had dominated. To erect the statue, the recently defeated, Long-machined legislature (which goes out of office next month) appropriated $50,000. A campaign for contributions had brought...
...notables. One of them is onetime Secretary of War (under Hoover) Patrick Jay Hurley, who got his start as a mule boy in a coal mine. When Pat Hurley took office in 1929, no finer figure of a man had ever graced a Cabinet meeting. Six feet tall, erect as a wooden Indian, blue-eyed, black-mustached, Secretary Hurley was a sight for sore eyes. From far-off Oklahoma they watched him with love. "Due to Pat," wrote Oklahoma's late Will Rogers, "we're liable to wake up some day with Presidential timber on our hands right...
...constructed, the spinal column was not supposed to be that of a man walking erect. Therefore, it is considerable strain for human beings to stand as they do, and any further deviation from the posture which is now considered normal is likely to produce backache," he said...