Word: carven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...
...hall one night last fortnight and, after the sudden short hush for grace, fell to gobbling and talking in a cheery, noisy hum and clatter as usual. The polished brasses gleamed by the big fireplace over which a great white bust of Homer looks down his nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair...
...Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," indeed the "Foremost of the Pear Orchard," disembarked from an ocean steamship in Seattle last week. He was a small, girlish-looking Chinese gentleman. In his curiously carven and vivid luggage were layers of sumptuous fabrics, great coils and shining lumps of jewelry. Twenty Chinamen accompanied "The Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," certain of them bearing strangely shaped cases containing musical instruments...