Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), great English philosopher-economist, arranged for his skeleton to attend the centennial celebration of his death (TIME, June 20, 1932). When not at commemorative gatherings, the Bentham skeleton sits in a wooden box at the University of London, dressed in Bentham's own clothes. The Bentham skull, fleshed out with tinted wax and hair, lies on the floor of the box between the Bentham foot bones...
Next afternoon. 200 miles from Asheville, the three ladies hung in a wooden cage 400 ft. in air looking down on the Clinch River. With them was Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, pointing out the foundations of the 253 ft.. $34,000,000 Norris dam. "It is most thrilling!' Mrs. Roosevelt exclaimed, "a great deal like riding in an airplane.'' After a two hour inspection of a dozen electric-gadgeted brick and frame houses in the new town of Norris, she went to one of the construction camps and made a speech: ''The Government...
...forever filming it with a Leica still camera and a Bell & Howell cinemachine. a landauer would have been just the thing. But swank Col. Oscar von Hindenburg insisted on a Mercedes. As the big car swept up to Neudeck an entire company of Reichswehr troops stood at wooden-soldier salute, flanked by peasants in bright, old-fashioned East Prussian costumes. Whrrrr went His Majesty's camera while the peasants roared: "Hoch Siam! Hoch Siam...
...night last week the square, bare, whitewashed auditorium in the basement of a dingy old brownstone building on Manhattan's Astor Place was jampacked with friends, families and seniors of Cooper Union. Watching them from the old-fashioned wooden platform sat the school dignitaries. Abraham Lincoln had stood on that platform to deliver his famed campaign speech in 1860. Now another tall, bearded man, Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, potent industrialist and president of Cooper Union's Board of Trustees, uprose to warn the seniors to work hard and be modest. Then he started to hand out diplomas. Sixteen...
Recognized immediately by every visitor was a Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) Washington showing the President's sunken cheeks caused by the wooden false teeth which Painter Charles Willson Peale made for him. Less known was a Washington at the Battle of Trenton by Stuart's contemporary, John Trumbull (1756-1843), moody son of a Connecticut Governor, who once refused a commission in Washington's army because a clerk misdated it. Best known of Painter Trumbull's works are his four big panels (The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation...