Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Technically this inner quality is manifested in a tremendous vitality expressed with an understanding of the values of rhythm and mass. And there is a often fine organic unity which shows in a plastic sense, surpassing that of most civilized peoples. This is attributable to the wooden medium which of its nature gives a flexibility lacking in stone. The surfaces in particular are of unusual quality and reflect the laborious workmanship involved in the creation...
...third and most amazing chapter last week held the Midwest enthralled. That chapter began on March 3 when, with a wooden gun, John Dillinger bluffed his way out of jail at Crown Point, escaped in the woman sheriff's car, taking a negro murderer named Herbert Youngblood with him. (At Port Huron, Mich. Fugitive Youngblood fatally wounded a sheriff before he himself was killed.) From Crown Point in seven weeks Dillinger's bullet-strewn trail wound and rewound through half a dozen states (see map). He arrived in St. Paul with a shoulder wound, got a city health...
Derby Day this year finds Churchill Downs physically about the same. The vast old gimcrack wooden stands have had a touch of paint and a little repair has been done on the fences which separate Louisville's most noted establishment from the mean little houses of one of its least attractive sections. In tune with the times, a café and bar have been added; admission prices are down 33⅓% to 50%. But for the first time since 1930, a sell-out is forecast for the Derby. Vice President & Mrs. Garner from horsy Texas and NRAdministrator Johnson, oldtime...
...excuse for having bichloride of mercury tablets around the house nowadays as an antiseptic. There is even less excuse for swallowing the deadly blue tablets by accident. Some drug manufacturers make them coffin-shaped. Others put them in bottles with round bottoms or covered with sandpaper. One uses small wooden caskets. The adult who takes bichloride of mercury usually wants to die, is usually successful. But in future he may be thwarted by an antidote reported by Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal of U. S. Public Health Service last fortnight in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Camden, N. J., Neighbor Kisselman, after a quarrel with Neighbor Cavalieri, threw up a 6-ft. $300 barbed-wire spite fence. In reply Neighbor Cavalieri hoisted a pink wooden pig on a pole to grimace down at Neighbor Kisselman. Neighbor Kisselman ranged along his spite fence two pigs, a toad, a wolf, two snakes, a wild bull, a skunk, a baboon; portraits of Neighbor Cavalieri...