Word: uprighteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most upright and respectable U. S. ministers held a convention and announced that they favor swearing, public surprise would not have been much greater than it was last week when 49 of the safest and most cautious U. S. motorists held a convention and announced that they favor speeding. One from each State and the District of Columbia, the 49 were selected in local contests open only to persons who had driven at least 50,000 miles in ten years without accident or conviction of a traffic violation. Driving to Manhattan in their own cars at the expense...
...descent from the pole, shielded from direct view as it was by the tent, might have been accomplished in a number of ways. . . . Probably the manner of attaching the horizontal bar to the upright stick was such that, while supporting the Yogi, the bar could still be caused by vibration, to slide intermittently down the pole. To illustrate this process, take a round stick and a flat stick with a hole in one end the size of the cross-section of the round stick; slip the hole of the flat stick over the round stick, and attach a weight...
According to Professor Hoffman's Modern Magic, the trick is done by means of an iron and leather harness worn by the performer which is attached by means of a ratchet to the upright stick...
...Because the secrets thus disclosed in criminal violation of the Official Secrets Act were known to every Cabinet member, to high Treasury civil servants and even to Government printers, Britons last week awaited earnestly the findings of Parliament's Special Tribunal of Inquiry over which presided testy and upright Justice Sir Samuel Lowry Porter...
...habitual procedure of stepping out on the Presidential Palace balcony with the incoming chief executive to take the cheers of the crowd, kept Batista far in the background. Hopefully said President Gómez: "Force alone is precarious if it is not animated and authorized by reason and justice. . . . Upright courts . . . shall have sole powers to decide upon the life, the liberty, the honor and properties of persons...