Word: ramrodded
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...sitters have included a score of college presidents, a brace of bishops, and such thinkers and men of letters as Alfred North Whitehead and John Masefield. Hopkinson hit an early peak in 1921 with his portrait of Charles W. Eliot, in which the late, great Harvard president's ramrod back is tellingly contrasted with the folded gentleness of his big hands. A more recent painting of Harvard's James Bryant Conant seems to show him searching lor the proper word...
...ramrod-stiff line of men that will march to their places in Michie Stadium tomorrow afternoon are worlds apart from their Harvard counterparts. The life each group is trained for, the standards set for each, the philosophy each holds, all are probably as diametrically opposed as two groups of people could get. Whether or not militarism is undemocratic and vicious, or the Regular Army officer is blind and reactionary, the West Point Cadet has the faith of a tradition and a pride born of integrity behind that swagger in his walk...
...story might have serialized nicely in the old American Boy. It is filmed (much of it at West Point) with romantic feeling for place and protocol, and there are appropriate performances by Ladd as the animated ramrod and by Miss Reed, the screen's All American Nice Girl. Most of the military people, however, are such Galahads, and most of the male civilians are such slobs, that ordinary men will probably slink out of the theater with their hats over their faces...
...night when he was on the Mexican border -on a tour of duty during which he later pursued "Pancho" Villa-his house in San Francisco's Presidio caught fire. His son Warren was saved, but his wife and three daughters were burned to death. His severity and ramrod correctness simply seemed to increase...
...looked healthily pink. As usual, his tie was knotted at half mast on his high, stiff collar. Ramrod straight, he stood 6 ft. 1 in. and shook hands with a lumberjack's grip. Being in the upper division again after all these years looked like...