Word: upright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stumping up the Pacific Coast to Portland. Ore., Nominee Robinson turned east again last week. At Boise, Idaho, hometown of bearlike Senator Borah, he indulged in one of the most violent utterances of the campaign. Marking the difference between Borah the intellectually upright Senator and Borah the stump orator, Robinson cried: "The lone eagle abruptly ends his flight toward heavenly Utopia and swoops to perch himself on the filthy boughs with vultures...
Sharp-eyed Newsman Pelletier saw the Senator's letter in the Times and last week wrote a letter himself. He told the Times about calling on the Seed-Sower and concluded with all the indignation of an upright journalist: ". . . It is the first time the charge of 'misquoted' has been aimed at me and it is baseless, even though it comes from a Senator...
...contrivance was steel framed, nine feet in diameter, with a sealed hole in the top and a ballast to make it stay upright. After completing it, Jean Lussier had been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...
...careful, upright handwriting was perhaps the first sign the clear concise statements complete the portrait. Best of all is the sentence describing the writer's visage the face with character stamped so strongly upon...
...even the Irish caretaker is stirring. Memories of his late irascible father haunt him as he climbs to his old room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied upon to make out of her not the psychic fantasy of Bentham's weary mind, but the heroine of an excellent...