Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...card tables of Mayfair has come a startling innovation. American residents have introduced poker as a rival of bridge in fashionable society, much to the discomfiture of stern old auctioneers. Newspaper report has it that bridge is hard put to compete with the western invader, so lately come from lumber camp and smoking...
Last fortnight the prophecy of this blessing to mankind had its first fulfillment. The Morgan Engineering Co., of Alliance, Ohio, announced the completion of a two-story automobile sales and storage plant, built throughout with metal lumber, welded throughout electrically. Not a single rivet was used...
...novels and stories is, as usual, large, and in it there are several of worth. "The Professor's House" by Willa Cather is one of the most excellent, and rather curiously, has been popular. Steven's 'Paul Bunyan" records the yarns of the great legendary character of the American lumber-camps. Theodore Dreiser has written his first novel in several years, "An American Tragedy," in two volumes. J. R. Dos Passos in "Manhattan Transfer," writing in a kaleidoscopic fashion that savours of James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley's "Thunder...
...Lumber and wood products...
Said the Prwvda's returned Comrade Gulliver: "I saw (in New York City) 7,000,000 two-legged animals penned in an evil smelling cage . . . streets as unkempt as a Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...