Word: uprightness
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...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...
...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...