Word: pined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo, five policemen were needed last week to handle traffic on the roads near Pine Hill cemetery. Reason: ghastly-ghostly voices and music were issuing from a tomb. Amateur sleuths at length discovered that the horrid sounds, refracted by the marble mausoleum, were echoes from a radio loudspeaker in front of a distant shop...
...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
Smart international yachting folk who have sailed up the pine-fringed Kristiania Fjord to the capital of Norway, Oslo, will remember Castle Oskarshal. As they cast anchor off the Royal Yacht Club, in the wimpling Frognerkilen, they had Oslo on their starboard and suburban Bygdo, with its Castle Oskarshal, on their port...
Warm breezes drifted in from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...
...clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into...