Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followers, including his personal secretary, the party secretary and two poets, were also arrested. While the Puerto Rican National Guard was held under arms in its armories, ready for any emergency, Nationalist headquarters throughout the island were raided. The police found one loaded Springfield, one bomb, 50 wooden guns, and a batch of "Army of Liberation" enlistment cards. Charged with sedition and conspiracy to overthrow the Federal Government, Albizu Campos was indignant because the U. S. would not release him and his friends on $1 bail. Instead bail was given at $10,000 each and Albizu Campos went back...
...novels there have been few authentic ones laid in Japan, fewer that go beyond the surface strangeness played upon in such books as Carl Fallas' The Wooden Pillow (TIME, Jan. 20). The appearance last week of a first novel by a young Westerner which gave evidence of a deeper understanding of modern Japan was therefore of more than passing importance...
...sarcophagus effigy from 13th century Spain, the only large wooden figure from this period in the country, is being put on exhibition in the Main Hall of the Fogg Museum today...
From the tomb of Diego Garcia, an obscure knight who died in 1286, this reclining figure is unusually well preserved, a remarkable fact when it is considered that very few wooden statues of this period are in existence today...
Meanwhile at the Museum Director Barr gulped coffee and puffed cigarets, as he tried to explain why two wooden balls dangling on wires from a bit of bent pipe should be considered art. Three days before the exhibition opened printers were waiting anxiously for the catalog of which Director Barr had composed only six pages. Excerpt...