Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Holburn Snowden, of Bridgeport, Conn., winner of twelve Beaux Arts competitions in sculpture, had submitted a slim, upright, nude, plaster girl, "Flora," playing with her hair...
...vigilant eye of Boston police. Neither side could get the advantage. Darkness came with the score tied. They carried the fight indoors. Banquetting followed. At 3 next morning empty cases were seen piled high about the scene of the last stage of the fray. The CRIMSON editors were still upright. They had maintained their dignity. Harvard had gained the victory. They quitted themselves like gentlemen...
...royal Danish palace of Amalienborg a choir of Cossacks sang last week from full hearts to a little, weazened, dry old lady who contrived with an effort to sit upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the British King-Emperor George V, of Danish King Christian...
...that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
...upright figure of that day is now a memory. In part it will be the purpose of the memorial service eight days hence to commemorate that memory. But the service will be more than a commemoration. It will express that spirit which was so strong in Eliot, which is the unifying force binding together all members of the Harvard community. He himself expressed it on that last public appearance in the Yard...