Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Georges Barrere arrived in the U. S. 30 years ago he was roundly twitted because he wore a luxuriant spade beard, long pointed mustachios. Through these he managed to play a flute with uncommon skill, but it was not the wooden instrument his colleagues knew. The young Frenchman played a silver flute. Of the 30,000 professional flautists now in the U. S., all but five use an instrument of silver or some cheaper metal. But Georges Barrere, peer of them all, has gone two steps ahead. Ten years ago he took to playing on a $1,000 gold...
...face, almost wooden, sometimes lights up in a crooked smile. Prone to swearing a good deal in a quiet, pleasant way, he never loses his temper, though he is a martinet about detail. When he is in command, his ship must be spotless, his men equally neat. In only one respect is he himself lax-his beard, which is fast-growing, heavy. Hating to shave, he has tried all types of razor, has lately returned to an old-fashioned straightedge...
...books form a part of the Northang edition, one of the best printed, but none the less somewhat illegible because done form wooden blocks on poor paper...
...longer possible to have books like these reprinted, because a Mohammedan uprising in 1928 destroyed the wooden blocks of a Buddhist monastery on the Gansu-Thibetan border, where similar printing had been carried...
...Good news awaited the President when he returned to Washington. A new yacht, the Coast Guard patrol boat Electra, will supersede the wooden Sequoia to carry him on his weekends afloat. Advantages of the Electra: steel hull, 165 feet overall; 15 knots; enough space not only for the President and guests but also for his Secret Servants. Budgeteers expected some saving in the $87,166 which it cost the Government to operate the Sequoia in fiscal...