Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vain Actress Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...
...through rich plantations, removed whole hamlets from the face of the island. Few in the wall's path had time to escape. Injured victims of previous smaller slides were caught, their legs and arms torn from their bodies by the onrush of debris. A corps of carpenters constructing wooden coffins saw a mass of mud moving down a valley, were themselves buried alive. Mothers tried to herd their young to safety as the slithering ground under their feet swept whole families to death. One seven-acre area was covered by a 20-ft. layer of clay...
...boys out of trouble. Sometimes, however, they burn down to the edges of roads or cultivated land. Last week, a stiff breeze combined with ideal burning conditions in the hills caused the brush fires to get completely out of hand and it was actually true that the old wooden Arrowhead Springs Hotel, owned by Producer Joseph Schenck, burned to the ground, after the Ritz Brothers had moved out in a hurry...
...last spring men have been clearing a 3,000 foot slope which has a vertical rise of 658 feet. The tramway is known as the "Skimobile," and consists of 60 individual streamlined cars with pneumatic tires that are clamped at uniform intervals to a steel cable running under a wooden platform. There are several disembarking stations on the way to the summit, serving shorter runs...
...number of elaborately carved wooden ancestor images from the island of Nias, near the coast of Sumatra, are now in the possession of the Museum along with gifts and loans from every corner of the world...