Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prosperous German piano tycoons once battened on the parents of flaxen-haired fräuleins. Each apple-cheeked Lorelei of 1914, required, as her minimum working equipment, a revolving stool, a well-tuned upright, and hundreds of sheets of such saccharine music as Die Unglücklichen Herzen (The Unhappy Hearts). Last week a survey of the German piano business showed how strikingly frauleins and times have changed...
Abraham Lincoln rode up just after dawn, his legs dangling against his horse's flanks. He dismounted, stood back to back with James Shields. Both had muskets. They walked 20 paces, turned toward each other and took aim. Shields fired first, but his arm quivered. Lincoln remained upright, drawing a meticulous bead. Then his gun startled the silent morning...
...bellows, just like a common house-organ. They are encased, though, in a body similar to, but very much smaller than, the old-fashioned "square" piano. There are two treadles but they are not like the treadles of the organ, being rods run from the foot to the upright rod that connects with the bellows. The right foot is used to pump air; the left is used to increase the sound...
...England knew that Queen Victoria lived to the age of 80 in Sir Stanley Hewett's care. The great Queen's Grandson, George V, was but 63 last week. His death, thought Britons, would be a sad commentary on the wages of virtue and an upright life. Those Royal libertines, George I, George II and George IV, all died at the age of 67. That Royal part-time madman, George III (reigned 1760-1820; mad 1788-89 and 1811-20) lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would...
...good but let no man interfere with their efforts to lay hands upon it. If on the other had a majority hold that victory is but an abstraction more sweet because of its very lack of material symbols, let the first man who throws his weight against an upright suffer the consequences of an outraged public opinion. A spineless vacillation and willingness to let circumstances rule is daily proving insufficient. Were a hypothetical straw vote to be taken on the merits of this question, certain poignant memories should combine with more sober considerations to range Harvard men with those opposing...