Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania have been elected to the Senate, it remains for upright Senators to find a way to oust them. Morally and, politically the case against them is good. Their primary slush was enough to make onetime (1919-22) Senator Truman H. Newberry look like a deacon. Their taint gave Democrats and Insurgents an issue, embarrassed even the most regular Republicans. A substantial majority of the next Senate will find it politically wise to unseat them. But Mr. Smith and Mr. Vare have raised the question as to whether...
...figure of the past remains- Louisa May Alcott (1832-88). Yearly her books are issued; this autumn, in five editions.† Her upright heroines still curtsey at balls, have jolly sledding parties, converse soberly on morals, dismiss wayward suitors, love their families before themselves, suffer sorrow in pious silence...
...even until late in the final period, when Brine ran 25 yards to his own 15-yard line. On the next play Whiting dropped back to throw a pass, but it was blocked, and Adams recovered it to make his winning run. Heard's try for goal hit the upright...
...representatives of the 48 States assembled in her honor at the Biltmore Hotel. Manhattan, Queen Marie distributed, "as a surprise," 48 sheets of ruled paper with a blue cross on the upper right-hand corner. On each Her Majesty had written with bold upright pen strokes an apostrophe to a state, had signed "MARIE...
...chattered gleefully with the exuberance of 17, waved a dutiful goodbye to stout ladies in waiting, was Girl Guide Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau. As she sat, perforce upright, upon a brightly varnished but angular third class bench, few would have supposed her the sole heir to one of Europe's largest and most thriftily hoarded fortunes. Throughout the week, as she did camp girl duty (cooked, scrubbed, mended) few chance visitors guessed that this bright-eyed buxom girl was Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, heir to the throne...