Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, Dorothy Lamour as an orientalized American is distinctly wooden--not only in her acting but in her attempt at speaking English with an accent. It seems that Paramount has taught her some Chinese for the picture; for those who are interested, it can be understood, but it recks of Brooklyn...
Where once they carried water into rough wooden dormitories, they gaped at 100 modern brick buildings, an art museum, a 50,000-volume library (named for Alumnus Oliver Wendell Holmes), a new infirmary, an archeological museum, a carillon tower, a forest sanctuary. "Where," grumped Edgar B. Sherrill, '98, "is the Deanery?" "There it is, sir," replied great-nephew Arthur Miles Sherrill Jr., 13, pointing to an imposing new brick-and-concrete commons...
After a hard morning in the class-room, the booth-dwellers return to their habitat feeling at case with the familiar wooden support behind them. No true "jellier" ever sits at a table in the middle of the floor, only booths give him that protected feeling...
...could have knocked me over with a wooden tee," chuckled Golfer Nelson...
...serve a purpose. Their presence in Rome was the occasion for a realistic suggestion from Tokyo: Japan, Italy, Britain and France ought to repay the bad faith of their erstwhile friends, Germany and Russia, by banding together to end the Hitler-Stalin plot for "Bolshevization of the world." These wooden words were put in the mouth of poor old Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, the Chinese ventriloquist for Japanese policy...