Word: upright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unable to afford the $230 plane fare, Morton took the bus. On the back seat he sat upright with Donald cradled in his arms, fed him carrot juice and Pablum, comforted him when his pains grew worse, breathed air into his nostrils when he choked. At one point a party of drunks tried to force the Mortons off the back seat because they were taking up too-much room. "For the first time in my life," said gentle Farmer Morton, "I resisted...
Yankee depredations have forced Cooper to become an outlaw, at least in the eyes of the scoundrels who administer justice. Out of a gunpoint encounter, he strikes up a friendship with an upright dude (Leif Erickson) from Boston who has become a U.S. marshal in Dallas. Cooper takes over Erickson's identity and fancy duds, his official mission and, at length, even his girl (Ruth Roman...
...bookshop now, still hawks books from a barrow "in the gutter." Like every famed "character," he is permanently hoist with his own reputation: he can no more afford to become rich, or grammatical, or stop collecting autographs or saying "blimey!" than Groucho Marx can afford to adopt an upright, manly stance and a look of sincerity...
...save the life of a small boy born into the Atomic Age. The treatise-explained how: "Junior will feel the wind go by, the dirt and pebbles blown with hurricane force against his head . . . A few cuts on the arms and legs aren't important. His playmates, standing upright, will be blown over like matchsticks. Some may get concussion, some broken bones...
...gave the invocation, the Lutheran minister led responsive readings, and Father Kampson of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church pronounced the benediction. Mrs. Einar Olson and her son Ronald played the prelude and postlude. She pumped the old parlor organ and Ronald did his best with an ancient upright piano...