Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tough to have a name," was a three-year-old, 350-lb. female grizzly bear taken last month from Yellowstone National Park to Pittsburgh's Highland Park Zoo. Early one morning last week, Too Tough, crazed by the sun baking her steel-barred cage, ripped off its wooden roof, lumbered out. When a pedestrian saw her waddle wild-eyed into a public street, the police gave the alarm, closed the park streets to traffic, drove moppets out of the park swimming pool. After a five-hour police search a park workman walked down into an underpass, found the bear...
...last week Third Termites bored busily in the solid wooden pillars of U. S. politics. Scripps-Howard's cartoonist, Harold Talburt, caught the spirit of it in a drawing of Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes, two urchins standing on the magic table of Franklin the Great, hoisting a third-term rabbit out of the absent wizard...
There were 368 boats, 1,500 sailors (from seven to 74). Craft ranged from little Nimblets that looked like wooden bath tubs to twelve-metre boats that looked like debutante sisters of America's Cup yachts. Of the 36 classes, major interest centred on three...
Long before William Tell displayed his skill with bow & arrow, Saxon wood carvers engaged in a sport called Vogelschiessen (shooting at wooden birds perched on poles). Last week, at Saxony Rest near Milwaukee, 400 of their U. S. descendants gathered for their annual jamboree and Vogelschiessen tournament...
...more exclusive than polo, class J-yacht racing or court tennis, sportsmen who want to indulge in Vogelschiessen must present a pedigree. Only descendants of these old Saxon craftsmen may shoot. With steel crossbows and steel-tipped wooden bolts, the Thierfelders, Dietzes, Dreschers-now butchers, knitters, iron workers-took turns last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock...