Word: uprights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighth, against stealing, shows upright trees, big and straight, stars, square solid rocks...
...have," replied the foreman. "We find the defendant not guilty." Judge Bryant jerked upright, a grey forelock falling over his wide, incredulous eyes. From the courtroom rose a shrill burst of female cheers. The judge banged his gavel, got quiet. Turning to the jury, he cried in a voice sharp with scorn: "You have labored long, and no doubt have given careful consideration to this case. Before I discharge you I will have to say that your verdict is such that shakes the confidence of law-abiding people in integrity and truth...
...bolt upright in surprise when War Office Secretary Douglas Hacking announced that His Majesty's Government are abandoning the U. S.-invented Lewis automatic rifle in favor of the "superior" Czechoslovak-invented Bren submachine gun. This will be made in Britain under a patent agreement as with the Lewis gun. For heavier work the Army will continue to use standard British machine guns turned out by Vickers...
...market last month by Hadclorff Co. of Rockford, Ill., the Vertichord is the logical expression of the movement which caused makers long ago to scale down grand pianos to baby grands, uprights to pianettes. Measuring 45 in. high, 60 in. wide and 25 in. deep, the Vertichord is essentially a grand piano upended, combining the long strings and large sounding board of that instrument with the compactness of an upright, the grace of a spinet. Cost of the Vertichord: $295 to $445. Similar instruments are being marketed by other firms: the Vertical Grand, the Betsy Ross Spinet, the Spinet Grand...
...their feet at a roadside fire after a guard told them not to. The guard's story is that the two Negro convicts-Barnes received stolen goods; Shropshire had driven while drunk-were put in solitary because they refused to work. The Negroes say that they were manacled upright ten hours a day for nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went out, that at night they slept without fire, with only scraps of blankets for covers. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes had plenty of heat, plenty of covers. The Negroes...