Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolf. Eight-year-old Romano Mussolini, wearing the militant gear of a "Fascist Son of the Roman Wolf," invaded his father's office before the Dictator left for Bolzano. Coming to attention with his wooden musket, Moppet Mussolini cried: "Papa, I want to go and fight with Bruno and Vittorio...
...parts that go into a house. The rest -hardware, lighting fixtures, floor covering, wall covering, etc.-the builder buys for himself. All Reynolds equipment is sold through local dealers. The company claims that a Reynolds house, complete with airconditioning, will cost the builder only about 8%, more than a wooden frame house of the same cubic inch content. Chief advantage of the Reynolds plan is that a home builder has the coordinated services of a dozen or more structural experts, does not have to worry whether the right proportion of his building dollar is going to roofing, plumbing, frames, flooring...
...Duccio's work just one piece is completely authenticated: the great altarpiece for Siena's cathedral completed on June 9, 1311. Most of the altarpiece and all the contracts connected with it are still preserved in Siena. Missing are several of the 24 gilded wooden panels that once covered the back. It was one of these, entitled Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, that Mr. Kress bought last week, a 17-inch square, showing the figure of Christ on a rocky shore calling Peter and Andrew from their fish nets. All summer it has been on view...
Then followed a performance which, for sophisticated spectators in the crowd of 40,000 that jammed the wooden grandstand and bleachers of Good Time Park at Goshen, N. Y., stamped Greyhound as the greatest trotter seen on a U. S. track since Peter Manning, more than a decade ago. Stride by stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew...
...There was no thought of orb or crown When the single, wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom hailed him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither favour nor excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed...