Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though the U. S. ship Savannah and Canada's Royal William, both with auxiliary steam equipment, had sailed the ocean years earlier, the little 178-foot, 700-ton, paddle wheeler Sirius was greeted by the mayor as the first vessel to cross the whole Atlantic under steam power. Wooden-built for the London-Cork service, her transatlantic voyage was an experiment. In her wake next day arrived the paddle steamer Great Western, specially built for the Atlantic run, carrying 140 passengers...
...Communism. To achieve the first, Bund members are urged to patronize only stores run by Aryans who give members stamps entitling them to a discount relative to the amount they purchase. To achieve the second, Bundsmen have thus far done no more than make impassioned homesick speeches, parade with wooden guns. Sleek Mr. Kuhn, who looks and talks like an embryo Göring, last week failed to lead his organization through its latest crisis. He was in Brussels for an "antiCommunist" meeting with two other equally unsuccessful but considerably more authentic advocates of totalitarian government-Belgium...
...lecture three weeks ago on the need to balance prices, President Roosevelt singled out plaster as one article for which the price is too high. Leaning back in his chair with a long wooden pointer, he discussed a large graph showing that plaster prices are now twice what they were in 1929 (TIME...
...wooden scaffold, a bag of sand, a black mask and a short length of rope with a running noose might have been good enough for our grandfathers. But a hanging is no longer the fashionable thing it was once; a few U. S. States- Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, North Carolina and California- even kill their murderers with gas instead of electricity. Five of the country's lethal chambers have been made by the Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, which has a ghastly set of patents. Last week the fifth was sent off to San Quentin prison...
...high should be lowered and prices too low should be raised was not by itself a highly enlightening eco nomic doctrine. But as a political announcement it had force, for it laid at rest conjectures that the Administration was specifically bent on inflation. Professor Roosevelt picked up a slim wooden pointer and, leaning back in his chair, proceeded to elucidate his meaning with nine separate graphs on specific prices...