Word: uprightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming President of the United States. In exchange, I am to abandon forthwith and immediately a law practice which is both pleasant and, within modest bounds, profitable, to throw over honorable clients who offer me honest employment, and to desert a group of professional colleagues who are able, upright, and loyal...
...honest and upright citizen, with no police record and with no axe to grind at some other man's expense, you would be a perfectly legitimate exhibit here alongside our upright apes and bounding baboons from the African outdoors. But it will not do to install you here, as your presence would be denounced as a reproach to the majority of the proletariat and an insult to predatory...
...limits of the new cage, which will be one of the largest in the country when completed. The building will be 150 feet square, large enough to contain a complete infield. To indicate the height of the glass roof of the projected building, an extension ladder was roped upright in the con-center of the area which was marked off yesterday, rising nearly 60 feet into...
...with the white ring of senility around the eye, a man who walks feebly, sits listlessly in his chair, having all the marks of senility at the age of 65, 70 or older, will after les greffes testiculaires walk upright and with vigor...
...lure. And judging from observation, this lure is not overwhelmingly seductive among college men. The greatest factor seems to be the innate dislike for authority; the survival from school days of the contempt for the "teacher's pet" and the "goody-goody", who represent in the popular mind the upright and the law-abiding...