Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Washington had the first pump in Virginia, while all others were still using sweeps and windlasses. It was a wooden pump; and one day it just wooden pump. The Virginians got so dirty (I did not say thirsty) for lack of water, that George was figuring how to fix it, when a "Good Neighbor" from Hide-out Park happened along, named Fuddy-Duddy Rosey. Said he, "All that pumps ever need, is priming. So I will hire 10 million able-bodied men to carry water in cute little May-baskets, from the Privy, Treasury to prime...
...Little Wooden Pegs...
...Spain TIME, April 18, is a prize sentence ending "the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory." While they are in there they ought to hammer a couple of nice little wooden pegs in the Eustachian tubes. That would fix them...
...small, temporary wooden bridge will accommodate pedestrians throughout this spring, and also for the early football games next fall. The new bridge, when completed, will be of brick and concrete, in harmony with the general style of University buildings, and will be able to accommodate the large crowds on days of athletics events...
...emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played the king as if someone were about to play the ace, his portrayal is so chary it makes the Soviet iron man seem wooden...