Word: uprights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Condon's has a low enough cover and a good enough six-piece band to make a visit desirable anyway. The addition of this soloist who looks like a junior executive makes such a pilgrimage almost compulsory. He treats a concert grand like an upright with newspaper behind the strings a la Chicago. That's no mean treatment, either...
Harvard has always used wooden goal posts except for one game about 14 years ago when metal posts were tried. The steel markers were uprooted in four or five hours, carried over the bridge, and dumped into the river. One of the posts got firmly entrenched in an upright position and caused so much trouble to passing shells before it could be removed that the authorities went back to wooden posts...
...matter what, they'll never have to sell that big drum, or the heavy upright base drum. The base is the world's largest, made of pure brass and priecless today. The band bought it for $100 and costs of transportation, from a company that it took it after-John Philip Sousa's band came...
...arrived to lead the rededication service, the Rev. Samuel W. Robinson, superintendent of the 110 churches in the Methodists' Vmcennes District, could hardly believe his eyes. Sunlight gleamed on freshly waxed pews and on baskets of asters, zinnias and chrysanthemums. There were new cream-colored walls, a sturdy upright piano, and new runners on the aisles. Crisp new hymnals filled the racks...
...Upright Servant. But once he had seated himself, he assumed an air of bluff unconcern. He got out a prepared statement, fitted on a pair of thick-rimmed glasses, shot his cuffs, and, in eight minutes of manly recitation, denied that he had ever been anything but an upright and proper public servant...