Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic authorities gave in, allowed Brother Andre to purchase, with funds donated, a plot opposite the college, build a small wooden kiosk. By this time superstitious folk believed a story that Brother Andre had visited the Archbishop of Montreal, convinced him of his supernatural powers by paralyzing the prelate's limbs. Devout Catholics gave more & more money which enabled Brother Andre to build first a small chapel, then a bigger one, finally, with $2,000,000, to begin work on a great Oratory of St. Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned...
...lobby stood a huge wrought-iron war god. Elsewhere in the galleries were war masks, chieftains' stools, wooden idols, ivory headrests, bowls, swords, fly whisks, amulets, statues and fertility fetishes belonging to Frank Crowninshield, Henri Matisse, A. Conger Goodyear, Helena Rubinstein, Paul Guillaume, Sir Michael Sadler, and 65 other collectors. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was last week opening the largest, most carefully chosen and most important loan exhibition of African Negro sculpture the U. S. has ever seen...
...nerves, however, did what French rifles could not do. In May 1933, peasants going to mass in the village of Coggia found a hoarse, half-crazed man shouting "What have I done?" in front of the church door. A crown of thorns was in his hair and a heavy wooden cross hung from his neck. It was André Spada...
...crumbled temple and dwelling walls, spindles, loom weights, hammer-stones, hones, knives and scrapers for leather-working and basketmaking, combs, ointment mortars, receptacles for the kohl with which the women darkened their eyelids. On this level also were tombs which had sunk through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones...
...practical private charity that Mr. Taylor does is enormous. From his own pocket he has paid for innumerable funerals, bought wooden legs and glass eyes, met rent bills. In 1934 alone The Voice paid for 413 blood transfusions and the hospital bills of 583 unwed mothers...