Word: uprighteously
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...throws back the lid of the coffin, "AND HERE IS MARIA HAHN!"-or Ida Reuter, or whoever he had been talking about. As the coffin flew open a powerful jack-in-the-box mechanism would cause the blood-stained body of the girl-victim to sit bolt upright-or such was the effect of a life-size wax dummy doing duty for the corpse...
...Michigan medical school, to confute Dr. Hrdlička on the rarity of tetrapodisis. Dr. Nittis, graduate of the University of Athens, is a Greek born on the British-owned island of Cyprus. According to Dr. Nittis, children there always amble about on all fours before they walk upright. Dr. Nittis never saw them go otherwise before he migrated to the U. S. He inquired of other Greeks, of Near Easterners, of Balkanese. Their children did likewise. The apparent rarity of tetrapodisis in the U. S., he decided, was because in cities and modern homes the movements of young children...
Scorning his self-designed "Japanese" bed with its carved and gilded dragon headboard, he sat upright by his desk, his soft felt trench cap on his big head, grey woolen gloves on his hands, writing, correcting proof, revising his new book that is so nearly ready, between fits of drowsing in his chair...
Inspector Hannen (Edward Ellis) faced all these dilemmas, together with a car full of yelping women, emotional Italians, contradictory evidence. He kept everyone there, including the corpse of Stock-broker Edward Tracy (Jack Lee), which sat upright in grisly electrified rigidity and a Panama hat throughout most of the play. Inspector Hannen questioned the late Mr. Tracy's lovely wife (Dorothy Peterson) and his partner (Edward Pawley), who was also Mrs. Tracy's lover. After the dark murder of a clerk (J. Hammond Dailey) in the firm of the deceased, the Inspector ordered the motorman to retrace...
Marches. Pipers could choose from a list of tunes, were judged on their spirited playing, marching time (85-90 beats per minute), upright carriage. Winner: Pipe Major Stephen McKinnon of Montreal...