Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coventry, now the home of Daimler Motors, still celebrates with an occasional Lady Godiva ride. A bronze memorial tablet has been set up to the city's benefactor, and before Coventry's King's Head Hotel stands a colored, wooden statue of a bearded, blinded Peeping...
...torch was applied, the alarm sounded, the firefighters raced to the rescue. Before they could get their water into play, however, the flames had leaped up the wooden walls, roared through the whole flimsy structure. Panic-stricken onlookers, running away, got in the firemen's way. Two boys were burned alive, eight jumped screaming to their deaths on the ground. Four were so seriously burned that they died later in the hospital...
Last week La Gioconda's, smile was for a time in danger of disappearing forever. Fire broke out in some wooden scaffolding in the Pavilion de la Trémoille, where hang priceless Rubens and Rembrandt. The Mona Lisa was only 20 feet from the blaze. Workmen carried pictures hurriedly out of the room, covered others with canvas so they would not be damaged by firemen's hoses. When the excitement was over, not a single picture had been damaged. La Gioconda smiled...
Down the aisle dividing the men and women in the Matinecock Meeting House in Glen Cove. L. I. marched satin-gowned Florence Elizabeth Willits and Isaac Hicks Cocks. They sat down on a plain wooden bench facing 200 guests. For several minutes there was no sound in the ancient frame building. At length, when the spirit moved them, Florence Willits and Isaac Cocks rose and faced each other. The man took the girl's hand, declared he would take her for his wife. The girl repeated the pledge. Then they sat down. Thereupon everyone present signed a wedding certificate...
...science with contrasting machines for war and peace, gears and shells, bombs and books, live workers and dead soldiers. Obviously inspired by Orozco, it differs from the Mexican's work in the technical exactitude with which Engineer Egleson painted factories and machinery, the sobriety of the human figures, wooden in comparison with Orozco's energetic and muscular people...