Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance he is small, lean and wiry. His thin face is tanned a reddish brown. His stubbly brown hair he wears cut short and upright. His clothes are expensively conservative. On the floor he usually sits erect and silent, hands folded attentively in his lap. On the rare occasions when he does speak, he asks in advance not to be interrupted and then begins to read: "The Navy is the first line of defense. . . .'' No orator, his voice lacks resonance and pitch. When drawn into rough-&-tumble debate on the Navy, he becomes fussed and nervous...
...Peter Arno's (Curtis Arnoux Peters) earlier drawings shows an upright U. S. tourist being accosted in Paris by a smirking obscene-postcard-vendor; the caption is "Feelthy pictures?" No fly-by-night hawker of crude pornography, sexy Artist Arno accosts his public in broad daylight, through the pages of the New Yorker. Many an old-fashioned person would not understand Arno's allusions but would consider them "feelthy" if he did. One prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter...
...playing in a local nickelodeon for $12 a week. Scarcely tall enough to see the screen over the battered upright piano, she rattled off loud, hectic accompaniments for villains, soft, trembling tunes for injured heroines. Occasionally from her place in the pit she would sing a song or two. Her singing got her a $50-a-week job at Mellone's Restaurant in New Haven...
...might be noted that the Arlberg School differs primarily from other schools in that a crouching rather than upright position is assumed, and from the three fundamental crouching positions which reduce the center of gravity of the skier, it is easy to swing into turns and stops...
Neither ascetic nor erudite was Professor Lee's father, sinister "Old Tom" Lee, chief On Leong Tongsman and redoubtable "Mayor of Chinatown." Old Tom's wife was white. He shielded her and little Frank whom she reared an upright Baptist. Opium dens, eerie tunnels under Mott Street and stranglings in the dark are no childhood memories of Professor Lee, whose features and color resemble his mother...