Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mother Bannister enlivened her trial, the first for kidnapping in New Brunswick, by howling so industriously in her wooden cage that the lawyers had to shout back & forth. The jury acquitted Mrs. Bannister of kidnapping, found her guilty of extortion and of "harboring" Betty Ann, a crime involving a maximum penalty of three and a half years in jail...
...Painter Blythe became engaged to pretty, popular Julia Keffer of East Liverpool, settled down over a store in Uniontown, Pa., seat of Fayette County. He was commissioned to carve a huge wooden statue of Lafayette for the new county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg...
...Paso del Macho, began to wind its slow way through the rugged uplands toward the 7,400-ft.-high capital. When the train had rumbled half way across Paso Grande Bridge a dynamite explosion slapped the locomotive and tender against the bank of a 40-ft. ravine, tumbled two wooden sleeping cars to the ravine's bottom. Oil from a tank caught fire and flames engulfed the wreckage. A man pinned in the debris pleaded in vain to be shot as the conflagration approached him. Final count: 13 dead, 18 injured. Investigators discovered 200 yards of double wire leading...
...followed suit. But aside from their authors' profession, these two first novels had little in common. Spring Storm was not a novel of ideas but a simpleminded, affectionate tale of nonage in Nebraska. Though critics might well say the narrative creaked and that it was peopled by wooden marionettes out of Horatio Alger, they also found that its mixture of old-fashioned naivete and shrewdness had genuine charm...
...technique are the flower studies including a translucently vivid composition of dogwood branches and flowers and a superbly detailed picture of a single rose. Perhaps the most interesting subject content is offered by the pictures of a Tyrolean mountain church yard and an excitingly beautiful picture of a deserted wooden house which has become practically obscured by the lush growth of the vegetation. There are also a skillfully taken shot of mountain snow-scapes and a gentle study of a placid sea quietly dying upon a sunlit beach...