Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pall Mall room of Washington's Raleigh Hotel there was a grand celebration. All but nine of the Senate's 75 Democrats were present. Outside the door was a little wooden ramp of the kind whose appearance at any Washington hotel indicates that the President himself may arrive at any moment. Over the prandial tablecloth fluttered two perturbed tumbling pigeons, symbols of Peace. The Democratic Party was about to celebrate the accession of a new leader in the Senate, to drown old woes in new harmony...
...friends. Sixteen coaches hauled by two locomotives were necessary to accommodate the crowd. Setting gaily forth, the train presently reached tiny Chatsworth. Ill., took on six more passengers, chugged out of the station at 11:35 p. m. Some two miles outside the town it approached a small wooden culvert over a 10-ft. ditch. As the train rounded a knoll just before the bridge, Engineer David Southerland in the first engine suddenly screamed in horror to Fireman Rodgers: "My God! The bridge is burned! Jump for your life...
...locomotive, then pulled his throttle wide open, tore loose from his train and hurtled onto the culvert. The engine carried across the bridge even as it crumpled, safely reached solid tracks beyond. But the second locomotive and the whole train behind piled up in the ditch. Eleven of the wooden cars telescoped or were splintered to matchwood. There was no fire, but when rescuers from Chatsworth reached the spot they found 81 dead, 372 injured -Illinois' worst railroad wreck...
...June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal to distract attention from a detail...
...sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot owls, pickled scorpions. Texans (dressed in chaps) brought a large consignment of live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around, to the wooden fence near the camp of the Bahamians, the barbed wire fence of the Texans, the Paul Bunyan display of the Wisconsin Scouts, the Florida encampment hung with Spanish moss. All day, every day the tent cities echoed with the wrangling of Young America trading what it possessed for something else...