Word: uprighteous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause of the active hatred that he has aroused may be the ill-timed smile which accompanies his caustic criticisms of the motives and morals of men who consider themselves upright citizens. Or it may be that loose talk of reform and reorganization of society has deprived a class of U. S. citizens, who had some social security, of their feeling of security. However it has been-while business has profited well under the New Deal and the President's steps have done little physical damage to anyone-somehow, since the summer of 1934 when Louis Howe...
...year for another feudist, shared his last meal with the prison cat. Then attendants lifted his bullet-ridden, paralyzed body, clad in a pair of white pajamas, on a stretcher, carried it into the tented prison yard, toted it up 13 steps to the gallows. There they held him upright, half comatose...
...melodies that he has already recovered the fortune he lost in Depression. Despite their rich earnings, Berlin and Kern have remained unaffected by Hollywood's glitter. Kern still refuses to buy a new hat, begs old ones from friends. Berlin declines to be separated from the heavy old upright piano at which he wrote Alexander's Ragtime Band 25 years...
...mirror starts its journey west on a special train carrying a freight-car with equipment for unloading, and a caboose. The train will travel no faster than 30 m.p.h. Since it was impossible to provide a lateral clearance of 18 ft., the mirror had to be shipped standing upright. This raised the problem of overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to Kansas...
...cinema worshippers of the house are in a dither of chaotic delight, but Miss Arden is theatrically upset at the boring interlude until she perceives the physical advantages of Bud, the upright and mechanically inclined Adonis. Bud is properly affianced to his loving, apron clad Joyce, but the blonde screen hussy finds his weak point--an invention which will certainly revolutionize the film industry. Dexterous use of this leverage plus a hearty manipulation of her Westian contours puts Miss Arden on the way to success, and the barn. Just as Bud seems on the verge of losing something more valuable...