Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Antonin Raymond had it in mind to show the U. S. a thing or two which the Japanese had first shown him. When Raymond arrived in Tokyo, he soon found out that Japanese master carpenters knew more about architecture in wood than he did. He also learned that the tradition of submitting building plans to an astrologer was not superstitious but practical. The seer turned out to be an expert on such matters as drainage, prevailing winds. the varying angle of sunlight through the year-a subtle factor that Architect Raymond now scrupulously studies...
That lug was Edgar Bergen, who 20 years ago, at 16, sketched Charlie's features after those of a ragamuffin Chicago newsboy, paid $35 to have them whittled in wood by a woodcarving barkeep named Mack, and since then has made a tidy fortune speaking his nimble mind through Charlie's lips. Bergen himself is professionally shy, so that the fresh guy, Charlie, seems a distinct personality...
...there is to Charlie is that original red-wigged block of wood, and an oft-replaced body inside which is a trigger with which Bergen makes the little fellow leer, bow, grimace. He has a standin, used in cinema work and for some publicity stills; a wardrobe that includes a supply of monocles, two full dress suits, a supply of starchy linen, ten hats size 3½, including several toppers, two berets; a Sherlock Holmes outfit, jockey silks, a cowboy suit, a French Foreign Legion uniform, a gypsy costume ("It's the Gypsy in me"). He wears baby-size...
...London's left-wing Babes in the Wood -the English Pins and Needles-Chamberlain, swinging his umbrella, sings...
...Crimson and the Blue waged a nip-and-tuck battle throughout the entire 40 minutes of play, and neither team enjoyed a safe lead. Coach Johnny Wood's charges held a 20 to 19 edge at the end of the first half...