Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yesterday afternoon when the weekly post-game clean-up of the Stadium was completed. Only four bottles were found under the concrete section on the Princeton side, while 216 were found under the Harvard cheering sections and roughly twenty and ten under the Crimson and Princeton parts of the wooden stands respectively...
...becomes pregnant the hunter wants to marry her. Sister is being forced into a shotgun wedding by her dying father and casual sweetheart when her intelligent, cultivated grandfather saves her by taking her across the river to his own camp. The grandfather, a backwoods philosopher who reads Shakespeare, carves wooden figures and talks "noble platitudes" to the girl, also cares for her during her pregnancy, gets a wealthy New Orleans doctor who is his friend to deliver the child, drives a lingering sense of shame and guilt from Sister's mind...
Tuckered out last week was Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson, Founder, Bishop and General Overseer of ''The Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson," whose excitable communicants are known to outsiders as ''holy rollers." In Bishop Tomlinson's huge wooden tabernacle at Cleveland, a small East Tennessee town 40 miles southeast of Fundamentalist Dayton, little Founder Tomlinson, 71, brought to a close the liveliest revival meeting in a generation of distributing tracts and organizing holy roller camp meetings among the hillbillies of the Great Smoky Mountains. Some 15,000 of his 100,000 disciples were in Cleveland...
...give his invention-run off on an oval wooden track indoors-a wholesome fresh-air touch, Promoter Seltzer hit on the idea of making the standard distance 4,000 miles, calling the events Transcontinental Derbies, encouraging the illusion by wall maps with bulbs to show the imaginary geographical position of the contestants. Roller Derby teams in the Hippodrome last week were officially racing "the short course" from Salt Lake City to New York, via Route 30. First, after three of the 21 days the Derby is supposed to last, were Millie Duello and her partner Johnny Rosasco...
Next day Rural Electrification Administrator Cooke and Major General Edward M. Markham, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, hastily issued an edict against "political" speeches. New Dealers continued their "non-political" power campaigns. Dr. Harlow S. Person (Rural Electrification) and K. Sewall Wingfield (PWA) criticized private utility management. William Wooden (Federal Trade Commission) declared that the gas industry was in a state of "chaos and anarchy.'' Arthur Ernest Morgan (TVA) insisted that the Constitution must not stand in the way of a sound utility program. Basil Manly and Frank R. McNinch (Federal Power Commission) preached various aspects...