Word: upright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand upright...
Three years later, the very gentle, scholarly and upright teacher moved to an old summer hotel at Watertown, Conn, and used an abandoned race track as a playing field. Not all the hotel guests had moved out when the school moved in, and boys were sometimes interrupted during study hour by cries for "Three beers and some pretzels to Room...
Today Duke lives in a small Harlem apartment where, on a small upright piano, he composes between orchestra dates. His wife, from whom he has been separated for many years, lives in Washington. A 23-year-old son, Mercer (also something of a composer), is now in the Army. Duke's personal popularity among his bandsmen is attested by a turnover incredibly slow for any enterprise. Duke reads the Bible, attends church regularly...
...half hour Corwin's drama examined Cromer. There was a church, bomb-scarred but upright; a pier, wrecked in the middle to make it useless to invading Nazis; the beach where as many as 75,000 vacationists once toasted in the summer sun; Rust's nearly empty department store on High Street; a baker named Baker...
Great Republicans. But Washington had "a society of the highest order"-the great republicans Harriet had come so far to see. She saw everybody. Congressmen "reposed themselves" by Harriet's fireside. "Mr. Clay, sitting upright on the sofa, with his snuffbox ever in his hand, would discourse for many an hour in his even, soft, deliberate tone. . . . Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter . . . would illuminate an evening. Mr. Calhoun, the cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and never could...