Word: uprights
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...their sloping icy shoulders. . . . He knew the chains of them well; the Ortler group with the tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons of the Italian sea, and the two Glockners rising from their glaciers, upright from the brink of death." Pendennis Jones is a midwestern girl, married to an Englishman, who expresses herself in slightly dated wisecracks, bears a considerable family resemblance to the character of Brett in The Sun Also Rises. Sending her husband packing, by some measures not disclosed, Pendennis visits the doctor...
...Once while waiting for bewhiskered Auguste Rodin to keep an appointment at his studio, Sculptor Hoffman absentmindedly squeezed two sausage-shaped rolls of clay in her hand, was amazed to find that the pressure of her fingers had accidentally formed two upright figures, embracing. Said Rodin: "This is one of those accidents which one must catch and transform into science. You will keep this and model this group one-half life-size and cut it in marble - but before you do this you must study for five years." Five years later Malvina Hoffman finished her statue, called it Column...
...most upright and respectable U. S. ministers held a convention and announced that they favor swearing, public surprise would not have been much greater than it was last week when 49 of the safest and most cautious U. S. motorists held a convention and announced that they favor speeding. One from each State and the District of Columbia, the 49 were selected in local contests open only to persons who had driven at least 50,000 miles in ten years without accident or conviction of a traffic violation. Driving to Manhattan in their own cars at the expense...
...descent from the pole, shielded from direct view as it was by the tent, might have been accomplished in a number of ways. . . . Probably the manner of attaching the horizontal bar to the upright stick was such that, while supporting the Yogi, the bar could still be caused by vibration, to slide intermittently down the pole. To illustrate this process, take a round stick and a flat stick with a hole in one end the size of the cross-section of the round stick; slip the hole of the flat stick over the round stick, and attach a weight...
According to Professor Hoffman's Modern Magic, the trick is done by means of an iron and leather harness worn by the performer which is attached by means of a ratchet to the upright stick...