Word: uprighteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other stockholders, less well-to-do than the Couzenses, were fighting the $35,000,000 in assessments ordered by the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, had in fact secured a temporary Federal injunction against their collection. Such legal tactics made upright Senator Couzens impatient. Declaimed...
...down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped upright so that its hull may be scraped.* Flanking the dry dock are a mile and a half of new quays. Nearby a monument marks the spot whence the Mayflower...
After living in sin with the Trigger, the upright young lawyer who had proposed to her, finds them. She shoots the Trigger who had killed the drunken boy and comes to trial before her father, a rugged judge. It all turns out nicely and the audience goes home happy. One hears that George Raft refused to take the nasty part, fearing to get a snaky reputation and be hissed by the kiddies like William Powell or Wallace Berry...
...learned to walk upright more quickly than did Donald. Although both had walking carts to aid them, Gua used hers only for play. She preferred to proceed by hanging on to Professor Kellogg's trousers, walking between his legs. When Donald tried to imitate her in this form of walking, he, being taller, kept bumping his father behind. Gua, while walking thus, kept perfect step with Professor Kellogg, unless he went too fast. In that case she would make skipping hops until in step again...
Vexed last week was upright Winthrop Williams Aldrich, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and president of Chase National Bank (world's largest). And with good cause. Banker Aldrich had read in TIME, May 15: ". . . Of Chase's $30,000,000 first loan [to Cuba], $2,000,000 went into commissions-$500,000 to 'Wood Louse' Obregon" (Jose Emilio Obregon, son-in-law of Cuba's President Machado...