Word: uprightness
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...learned to walk upright more quickly than did Donald. Although both had walking carts to aid them, Gua used hers only for play. She preferred to proceed by hanging on to Professor Kellogg's trousers, walking between his legs. When Donald tried to imitate her in this form of walking, he, being taller, kept bumping his father behind. Gua, while walking thus, kept perfect step with Professor Kellogg, unless he went too fast. In that case she would make skipping hops until in step again...
Vexed last week was upright Winthrop Williams Aldrich, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and president of Chase National Bank (world's largest). And with good cause. Banker Aldrich had read in TIME, May 15: ". . . Of Chase's $30,000,000 first loan [to Cuba], $2,000,000 went into commissions-$500,000 to 'Wood Louse' Obregon" (Jose Emilio Obregon, son-in-law of Cuba's President Machado...
...installed in the chamber for the first time in history. At one side of the dais was set a second oblong table behind which clustered the House managers, headed by Judiciary Chairman Sumners. who were prosecuting the charges. At the other side was a third table where rigidly upright sat Defendant Louderback, flanked by Attorneys James M. Hanley and Walter H. Linforth. Judge Louderback's hands were folded over his paunch and his pale drawn face, with its puffy, unblinking eyes, was a mask of haughty indifference. Senators, exalted from their role of legislators to that of judges...
...Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. In 1930 Judge Lowell suffered a paralytic stroke that affected his walk. Last year when a Prohibition case based on wiretapping was before him, he effected an acquittal by addressing the jury thus: "We love to think of Uncle Sam as a thoroughly upright man. . . . Let us look at the picture of Uncle Sam descending to wiretapping. Instead of being an honorable gentleman, he becomes a sneaking cur. Just think of the shame of this thing, worse, the pity...
...laboratory. Why the nurses and docses and doctors were peering through glass covered interstices into an immense box in the middle of the room the Vagabond furtively inquired. A mass of almond hair whispered that they were waiting for the reaction. Within the cubic cell were two poles placed upright and a sobbing boy sitting on the floor. The muscles of his cheeks contracted and relaxed spasmodically; his legs twitched. Dequuro, the god who warned the people of Ponguelano, on more serious occasions, had purposely neglected the sick and the healers until the last moment, knowing that neither group...