Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covers came loose and revealed standing upright, inside each jar a small sarcophagus, the elaborate golden miniature of the great gold case that held the king's mummy. The little coffins, within the Canopic jars, within the alabaster box on its sledge, within the long-sealed tomb suggested a great Chinese nest of boxes, one cunningly held within the other...
...openhandedness, his exuberance, his loyalty to friends and his able management of the Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., went two weeks ago to a game of bowls at the Cleveland Athletic Club. At the club building he grasped a bronze door handle, staggered, dropped to one knee, pulled himself upright. Half inside the door he collapsed. The heavy door slammed upon him-dead of heart failure...
Culturally Ambassador Herrick is Franco-American. Patriotically he is straight U. S. As an upright lawyer and a banker of authentic vision, he is cream skimmed from the Western Reserve. Complex, he interests. Last week his many admirers, loyal, enthusiastic, dwelt again on the five major steps in his triumphantly surprising life...
...black box rested on a stand. From its top projected a metal rod approximately twelve inches high; from its side projected a horizontal metal ring. Before the box stood a thin, blond Russian, Professor Leo Theremin of State Physical Institute of Leningrad. He placed his right hand near the upright rod; a musical note streamed from the box. He wiggled his right fingers; chords and phrases danced from the box. He moved his left hand towards the horizontal ring; the music roared deeply. He removed his left hand; the music whispered forth...
...halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, as go-betweens (TIME, Dec. 19). Indignation flared last week when the names of the four Senators were published-Borah of Idaho (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee), LaFollette of Wisconsin (youngest Senator, upright Progressive), Norris of Nebraska (chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and Heflin of Alabama (who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope). Indignation flamed when Publisher Hearst admitted that he had given none of these Senators a chance to deny knowledge of the alleged efforts by Mexico to bribe them. Publisher...