Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than a few mornings in the last several years, University Hall officials have stared out of their windows and seen a large wooden horse which seems remarkably similar to the one the people of Troy encountered centuries ago. Sometimes it is boldly rolled up in front of the statue of John Harvard; sometimes it innocently squats at a rear doorway. Anyhow, during this first scholastic month, it has been hanging around quite too regularly, thereby shattering the usual official complacency at Harvard's never center. How the horse gets in is a problem which has not been solved, even...
...hadn't meant to read that poem when he picks up his Kipling. And now he thought of young John Kipling of the Irish Guards, lying under a white wooden cross in his same "tireless soil." How did it go? "There is some spot on foreign ..." Vag checked himself. He wouldn't think about that. The hand of death had lain heavily on France, but there were parts it had not touched, parts where there were laughter and bright lights and crowded busses, parts where people danced all through the night and the sky was pink from the neon below...
Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...
...lectured that certain commodity prices were too high, thereby precipitated a world-wide break in commodity prices, the first signal of Depression II. Last February Professor Roosevelt again delivered himself on commodities, this time documenting his remark with a dozen charts which he didactically explained with a long wooden pointer. Last week "a White House Spokesman" (see p. 13) had some thoughts to express not only on commodities but on the entire economic condition of the U. S. From Hyde Park the "spokesman" delivered himself to the following effect...
...appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the cliché of modern fiction, social significance. Result: so wooden that even the clashing of swords suggests a xylophone...