Word: upham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy working for me. I really am a man of parts, you know," said suave, gentlemanly J. (for Jack) Bates Upham, looking into the gold-digging depths of Estelle's grey eyes. Then he drove her to his old brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, and showed her the roulette table prettily concealed behind the Victorian knickknacks. Estelle, "wearing a décolletage which . . . did a good deal for a roulette player's perspective," shortly became the principal attraction of debonair J. Bates Upham's fashionable gambling joint...
Scion of "a long line of New Jersey Methodists," J. Bates Upham had emerged from the Spanish-American war as the nation's most dexterous poker player. He had learned to dance like an angel while "working" the Cunarders on the Atlantic run, and had finally emerged from Sing Sing revered as a forger and a gentleman. "I seem naturally," he told Estelle, "to prefer enterprises where a little extra risk may bring a little extra reward." Then he slipped his arm hopefully around her slim waist...
Grenade. Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlett Upham, 33-year-old Rugby player and shepherd, destroyed three German posts at Malemi. Later he took a corporal reconnoitering 600 yards into enemy territory; together they killed two Germans, led out an isolated company that had been cut off. He was wounded in the shoulder and foot, and next day advanced alone in another attack. Two Germans fired at him. One arm was useless, so he propped his rifle in a tree, picked off the two Germans who had shot...
...Hill's son), Director Dunnington's opinion was important. Reluctantly, he felt that the chairman's tongue-wagging had made him unfit for so responsible a job. Solidly behind him were the company's other Manhattan directors, particularly Banker William Steele Gray Jr., Broker Henry Upham Harris, Charitarian Barklie Henry...
Ringmaster of this gigantic art circus was a talkative, six-foot, grey-thatched former philosophy professor named Arthur Upham Pope who gave up philosophy 15 years ago because he liked Persian rugs better, soon found that he could make five times his professor's salary as an expert rug appraiser...