Word: uprights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago he fell ill. Thorough in everything, he was thorough in his sicknesses. He had cirrhosis of the liver, heart failure and kidney trouble all at once. His eyes and teeth also went back on him. For weeks at a time he can only sleep upright in a chair, his great grey head resting on his arms. According to all the laws of medicine he should have died a year ago. Between attacks he continues to paint, portraits now. Modern critics, incidentally, prefer these to his murals. His peacocks, sharks, panthers and zebras were magnificently alive, but there were...
...appointed Joseph Ridgeway Grundy of Bristol, arch-lobbyist for the Tariff, active raiser of campaign funds. Long used to dictating to politicians though never before a large officeholder, Mr. Grundy greatly enjoyed his transition and soon regarded himself as the G. O. P. boss of the whole State. An upright Quaker, he scorned Boss Vare. Solidly intrenched with industrial interests, he did not worry about a few enemies he had made among women, fraternalists, volunteer firemen, and certain labor groups...
Rumor kept the country acutely Capone-conscious. Upright citizens vigorously protested the attention the U. S. Press was giving this disreputable Under-worldling. The Press, however, continued to swing its spotlight around in search of Capone, contending that he was news- worthy, that it was in the public interest to find and keep...
...imagine almost all of us have been in a submarine," said he in his best Baptist-meeting voice, "We admire its ingenuity and its wonderful technique but we are bound to observe that the lack of space, involving long periods of being unable to stand upright, with vitiated atmosphere very often when submerged, are hardly in keeping with the improved conditions for industrial workers which we now all of us consistently urge at Geneva...
Another evidence of the University's upright attitude is her attempt to enforce literally a "four square" policy upon the denizens of Widener by making them execute right angle turns in their perambulations to the library. Not only does the management of the snow-shovelers brigade wait until the snow on Widener's steps has packed into ice, but it insists on clearing only the central wooden approach...