Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, famed "Black Eagle of Harlem," who drilled Ethiopian youngsters with wooden guns during the Italo-Ethiopian War, arrived in Paris to make a "comprehensive study of the international situation" as a war reporter for the Harlem newssheet, the Amsterdam News. "I am," said he, "ready to offer my services to France...
...whanging out this Brobdingnagian music was a prim, bald-headed carillonneur named Kamiel Lefre, No. 1 bellwhanger of the U. S. carillonneur of the Riverside Church and president of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs. Hard at work inside a little wooden booth at one end of the platform, through a glass window he could be seen pulling, slapping and stamping at the levers and pedals of the most complicated piece of bell-ringing machinery in the U. S. When he had boomed his last bong, Carillonneur Lefre emerged from his booth in a dignified sweat, took off his gloves...
...Long Island, American Bullfighter Sidney Franklin, decked out in cerise cape and a sheathed wooden sword, got ready to put on a bull-dodging act for a New York World's Fair rodeo. On hand were representatives of the S. P. C. A., 200 spectators, a bull in a corral. When somebody opened the gate to the corral, nothing happened. To attract the bull's attention cowboys did a dance in front of the gate. The bull didn't budge. Steers were driven into the chute as decoys. The bull looked the other way. Twenty minutes later...
This week, with greater impartiality than most diplomatic arbitrators show, the River Hai (pronounced High) flooded Tientsin-Japanese and British Concessions alike. Barbed wire on wooden trestles and wooden sheds for searching and stripping were washed away. The barbed wire blockade was off; a water blockade-of the whole city-was on. ^ In Shanghai, Sergeant W. L. Kinloch of the International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting...
...forceps. It was followed by a straining sensation, a feeling of pressure, a cracking sound, and a terrific wrench. . . . Something broke with a dull noise. . . . Each cracking sound reminded me of taking the lid off a jamjar, while the process as a whole was like splitting open a wooden packing case, plank by plank...