Word: veneered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Succeeding old Bill Lutz, who died last spring at over seventy years of age, as the premier boat builder here, the 43 year old Dane takes great pride in his craftsmanship. Just now he is recovering with a veneer of Spanish cedal the hull of an eight which was wrecked this fall in a head-on collision with another shell. Two weeks of work will make it serviceable...
...chosen few who edit the Guide Book see fit to revise it, it is strongly urged that they include hammer and chisel as essentials on any blind date. Venturing further, the day may come when a mass descent upon Radcliffe and Wellesley (with weapons) will remove this orthodontical veneer that has covered the female searcher after knowledge since time immemorial, and, oh happy day, render the feminine campus a joy forever. Arma virumque cano...
...pari-mutuel betting. Since Moscow shops have lately been permitted to copy a few Paris models and sell them at fantastic prices to the wives of potent Reds, there were scores of modishly dressed women in the grandstands. To silence shocked old Bolsheviks, and give the Red Derby a veneer of serious purpose, great signboards were plastered with quotations from a recent speech by War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov: WITHOUT HORSES WE CAN'T WORK DON'T FORGET OUR HORSES WE NEED HORSES FOR DEFENSE AS WELL AS FOR WORK...
...regional peculiarities, toward making us homeless citizens. . . . We came to feel that wisdom was an attribute of Greece and art of the Renaissance, that glamour belonged only to Paris or Vienna and that glory was confined to the dim past. . . . Essentially we were taught to regard culture as a veneer, a badge of class distinction...
...Author. Small, shy and blond, Robert Cantwell at 26 inspires more respect than is usual for one so young. Born in Little Falls, Wash., he had one year at the University Of Washington, then went to work in a veneer plant. In the course of his labors all over the U. S. he met and married a girl from Baton Rouge, went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with...