Word: uprighteously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inviting his own assassination, Daredevil No. 1 deliberately chose to enter Vienna standing upright in an open car which first traversed the Jewish and radical labor quarters. Any resident in one of these dingy blocks of flats could with certainty have shot the burly Feldmarschall who rode along beaming, waving his gold-starred baton at Viennese who, whatever their private opinions, screamed at the tops of their voices: "Hermann! Hermann! Our Hermann...
...mixture, for one thing, shows that the European situation is little different from what it was before the First World War. England and France are still inseparable; England will not stand by and watch Germany make her a secondary power, and France, if Blum can keep her government upright, will fight to prevent Nazi enticement. Suspicious of his rival and unwilling, for the sake of his prestige, to be made the lesser of two evils, Mussolini can extend his arm only toward England. Thus, it is E. I. E. against Germany-Austria...
...motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees a flash he pounces. While the Piano Master requires a specially built piano, a modification, the Key Master, may be fitted to any old family upright. The Key Master flashes lights in a dummy keyboard above the keys. So highly does Chicago's Story & Clark Piano Co. regard the Piano Master that they have already manufactured twelve flashlight pianos...
...Milagritos had made, wondered if her cousin was her lover. A terrible creeping apathy left Mr. Witt sitting by, inert, trembling, preoccupied, while the cousin went to his death. Then, to square himself with his conscience, Mr. Witt had to believe that Milagritos had betrayed him. At last this upright, self-respecting gentleman spent his nights prowling like a baffled thief around his own house, rummaging through his wife's papers for evidence of her guilt, while the shells fell on the doomed and starving city...
...Royal Chamberlain handed the bride's father an envelope containing a check for 10,000,000 piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...