Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will observe that She is a rough adaptation of his novel, written in 1887. Equally apparent is the fact that the narrative is less immune than its heroine to the ravages of time. A sequel to King Kong and other such RKO extravaganzas, marred by idiotic dialog and the wooden acting of Randolph Scott, it can be recommended only to cinemaddicts who find bizarre landscapes and immense improbable interiors adequate substitutes for genuinely imaginative fantasy. Typical shot: She's No. i henchman (Gustav von Seyffertitz) ducking his head and mumbling prayers when Leo Vincey shows him a talisman inherited...
...steel, can put a white collar man on the payroll at a cost of 20? (for pencil and paper), a laborer at a cost of $1 (for a rake). For his $4,000,000,000 last week it looked as if the President would get an abundance of wooden bridges, sidewalk and sewer repair, touring theatrical companies and a census-taking on practically everything from retail liquor stores to the number of unemployed...
Catherine was the second of three daughters; her mother was a long-suffering woman who shared her daughters' adoration for their father, a wife-beating drunkard who had brought back a wooden leg from the war. As the children grew up, the eldest became a zealous partner in her father's milk business, but the two younger ones, Catherine and Angele, each dreamed of the boy who was to marry her some day. At last he came, disguised as an old toymaker. Thereafter he appeared in various guises, but he finally turned out to be the long-lost...
...member of 1925, in full class costume, carrying a wooden cross and a shovel, bound in an aimless fashion for the baseball stands...
...last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...