Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential Palace at Tegucigalpa, the pretty, mountain-rimmed capital of Honduras, chambermaids were busy last week dusting wicker chairs and a gold telephone, shaking out blankets, putting clean sheets on beds. On Feb. 1, barring further violence, Honduras will have a new President - General Tiburcio Carias Andino, burly, mustachioed farmer and reformed hotblood. President Vicente Mejia Colindres will retire to the bawdy seaport of Puerto Cortes, where he expects to practice medicine and raise cattle from a stock of three blooded cows impregnated by three blooded bulls presented to him by United Fruit Co. after the election last October...
...hand of his longtime sweetheart. who because his social position was inferior to hers refused to marry him until the Presidency was within his grasp. On Feb. 1 she will move their family into the Presidential Palace, the reception room of which is furnished with a score of wicker chairs and a four-poster...
...annual show of the Pekingese Club of America the little dogs which peered out from wicker or glass cases strikingly resembled their fabled ancestors. There were the tawny coats, the pendulous ears, the wide chest and narrow hips of the lion. No imagination strain was needed to detect a simian likeness in their bright, popping eyes and bashed-in noses...
Male correspondents noted that the head fell into a basket, that the body was dumped into a zinc-lined wicker coffin (in which the head was later placed) for delivery to pregnant Mme Gorgulov, that Executioner Anatole ("Monsieur de Paris") Deibler wore his usual derby hat and was assisted by his son-in-law André Perrier who is being groomed to succeed M. Deibler as the next "Monsieur de Paris...
...Zingu. Women were tending babies, or grating manioc, or preparing the red paint with which they protect their naked bodies against insects. The bob-haired men were fishing with spear or bow & arrow, clearing manioc fields or fetching firewood. Some were erecting great communal houses of wicker. Although not new in anthropology, the construction of the houses was original with the Yawalapiti, who never saw any other houses. They invented trusses of tree trunks to bridge over the large areas which communal dwellings require...