Word: upright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disqualified by the preferment of charges against him, no matter how malicious and groundless, and he is compelled to give up his responsible position and sacrifice his honor for the time being because of such attack, no man in any official position is safe and the most honorable, upright and efficient public servant could be swept from office and stable government destroyed by clamor...
...least, of golf. And at the end of it all I found him, a day or two ago, an enthusiastic and even exuberant optimist. From his severe and prolonged ordeal he emerges with faith unshaken in God and man. He left on my mind a glimpse of a man, upright in body and mind, full of good sprits, wholly unafraid of death, wholly glad to be himself. It is as an expert on happiness that President Eliot celebrates his ninetieth birthday. And on the art of happiness he is, perhaps, the greatest living expert...
Gustave Hervé, editor-in-chief of the Victoire, who in 1917 was foremost in the clamor for Clemenceau, and who is now believed to speak for the Elysee, wrote thus of Premier Poincaée: "It is most regrettable that a man who is so upright, a patriot so sincere, a worker so prodigious, should fail France which counted so much on him. By whom can he be replaced? Is there none better among our politicians? Yes, there is old Clemenceau and his team. They made the Treaty of Versailles which was not perfect, which was not as good...
...suit was brought by no less, a person than the leader of Tammany Hall, Charles F. Murphy, Democratic Boss of New York City, who alleges that he is an honorable and upright man and that an editorial, published by the New York Evening Journal, in 1919, damaged his reputation in the amount stated...
...Planks" of necessity they are, but they fit directly into a scaffolding. And the scaffolding itself suggests a finer structure of which it has only been possible to sketch the elevation. If any nails are to be driven home to ensure the stability of even one upright, the only student body capable of driving them is the representative council. If, as has been so far promised by vague rumorings, it shakes off its former lethargy, it can wield to effect the hammer it has long unconsciously held...