Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaks in a low quiet voice, has a twinkle in his greenish grey eyes. One can judge readily enough that he would not take a drink nowadays, not for any hypocritical reasons but because he would regard it as lawbreaking. In fact, he seems to be a likable sort, upright, not courting the limelight, not endowed with the graces that make for success in society?but likable. But of course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower of righteousness, a leader...
...Sacred Whisker." Charles I of England had his head chopped off in 1649. Some one pulled a whisker from the chin. That whisker became a "sacred" symbol to be venerated by Anglo-Catholics when they celebrated "King Charles the Martyr's Day," Jan. 30. At this veneration the Churchman, upright and respected Protestant weekly, took another crack last week when it reported the protest of Dean Howard Chandler Robbins of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine against "the tendency [of Anglo-Catholics] to import into America certain English viewpoints and emphases which are alien and exotic...
...Sarfatti avowedly sets forth her "Chief" as "a Roman of the ancient mould. . . . He is even an exception to the rule that no one is a hero to his valet. . . . It is wonderful to see how his slightest orders are obeyed. . . ." [When he marches on foot] "so alone, so upright in his martial bearing," [it seems] "as if he were on horseback...
...officer to dismount. When he came close he discovered that the mounted man was Lieut. De Latour, who had often led his company into battle. A short time before he had been shot dead. Two black sergeants had placed his body on a horse and were holding it upright so that he might once more lead...
...Rutgers University, situate at New Brunswick, N. J. †"Hulking Homer" Hazel, Rutgers 1925, has twice been All-American fullback. **THE WAYS OF LIFE-Richard Swann Lull -Harper ($3.00). *Translated, "the ape-man who walks upright...