Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designing committee recently finished the construction of an imposing courtroom set wherein a large portion of the action takes place. The walls are made of veneer panelling, while the set itself is an accurate reproduction made from pictures obtained in London of an English courtroom. The aim in its construction is for realism; the purpose of which being to heighten the dramatic effect...
...Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide the thin veneer of background to match the slurred R's of the midwestern matron. The refuge for Americans too far developed for the rubber-neck wagon excursions, however, is the American colony in Paris, which has its annex on the Cote d'Or, and which is equally empty of intellectual nourishment and stimulation...
...steps of Widener, with the professors and the professors' wives, the students and girls from Radcliffe listening under the shadow of the elms, with the sun going down in subdued splendor, and the pigeons fluttering about the columns, the Vagabond detects a freshness and spontaneity which break through the veneer of Harvard indifference. Last night only a slightly chilly wind checked his enthusiasm, and even that did not prevent him from joining the group of carollers on the steps, at the invitation of the impressario. Enthusiasm and a large crowd can cover a multitude of vocal sins, as they...
...result of the experiment." said Jean ^ Toomer last week, "I am satisfied that it is entirely possible to eradicate the false veneer of civilization with its unnatural inhibitions, its selfishness, petty meanness and unnatural behavior. . . . Adults can be re-educated to become as natural as little children, before civilization stamps out their true or subconscious instincts. I am satisfied that an interior life exists in all of us. a true life which will come to the surface under proper conditions...
...take any wooden money" is a traditional piece of rustic advice. But last month, when the bank failed at Tenino, Wash., ten miles from Olympia, two doctors and a newspaper publisher issued coins cut out of veneer plywood and Tenino took them. Security for the wooden coinage was the town's faith in these three men and the dividends which the collapsed bank will pay when its affairs are liquidated. Last week Tenino's money was not only as good as gold; it was better. Numismatists were offering as high as one U. S. dollar bill...