Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gangs of Senator Thomas C. Platt (1833-1910) took graft. Mr. Cutting, then an obscure businessman in Manhattan's financial district, tried to fight the bosses, got little public aid. Obdurate, he took the presidency of the Citizens' Union and organized a "Fusion Ticket." An honest, upright man, he used the tactics of corrupt bosses, but with better intelligence. His followers won office, and ward heelers came to say of him: "He is the only boss in this town. He names the candidates, and when they write letters of acceptance, they write them to him." That...
...Padre is a French peasant-priest. He mingles with the people, drinks with the soldiers, says: "Hell, yes, you bet your sweet life." An uncouth fellow, given to kissing barmaids in saloons, he is, nevertheless, established as a sterling upright character, for he frowns blackly upon kissing in the salon. When his good-fellowship embroils him in a Parisian night club scandal and the Bishop is about to punish him, the Cardinal pops out from behind the curtain, announces that the padre has a heart of gold. Leo Carillo does the padre, but the real hero is Poilu, high-spirited...
Pallid busts of the Caesars keep a spectral watch in the great highceilinged room which Signor Mussolini calls his office. There, upright at his massive desk, he transfixed newsgatherers last week with a calm smoldering glance, answered their questions about the new Proscription Law (TIME, Nov. 15). Was it not, hinted the representatives of the press, a little persecutory to deport non-Fascist offenders to "penal islands" in the Mediterranean and Adriatic for "political and social crimes...
What is the nature of the work? What is a trail; anyway? A trail is cleared "when it has been made so passable by removal of growth of all sorts that a tramper with pack and horizontal blanket-roll, proceeding steadily, upright will encounter no obstructions, and will be able to see the footway a few steps ahead." The work consists of subtracting from the natural growth of the forest along the route of the trail whatever is necessary to reduce it to the above qualifications...
...York Negro, known to his compeers as the Jamaica Kid, climbed stiffly into a prize-ring in Waterbury, Conn., and assumed an upright position before Jack Delaney, world's light heavyweight champion. He had been paid a certain sum of money to get into that ring so that Delaney could have something to hit. To be sure, the Jamaica Kid had the option to hit back if he were able, but he knew after the second round that he would not be able long. An expression of physical terror, resigned and ghastly, spread over his black face. Delaney...