Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years of sealing Captain Kean has seen wooden sailing ships crunched like peanuts in the jaws of the ice floes. He has sent his men hopping out over the ice and later, when a blizzard blew up, known that some of them would not come back. He has seen survivors carried in blue and stiff as corpses. And each year for 66 years he has seen swilers trudge happily back, dragging their sculps in a long crimson trail across the glare-white...
...swung a silver maul at a golden spike (which he missed), history was made. The fire bell in Sacramento rolled to the rope. The first of 220 cannon shots was fired on Fort Hill, San Francisco. A two-mile parade stumbled into step in Omaha. Decorations blazed from the wooden lamp posts of Chicago. The chimes-master of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in New York played "Old Hundred" on his clanking choir, and President U. S. Grant received a telegram reading: "The last rail is laid, the last spike is driven, the Pacific railroad is completed...
When last week on the stage of the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia Dancer Eduard Borovansky of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe heaved a silvered wooden hammer at the head of a gilded wooden nail (which he hit), history was also made. But history of a lighter mood. Union Pacific, the first U. S. ballet to reach the repertory of the great Russian school of dancing made famous by Serge Diaghilev, had had its world premiere...
...Vallee) and Kitty Donnelly (Alice Faye), a romance almost put asunder by a Park Avenue hussy (Adrienne Ames). As he croons, Vallee regards the onetime cabaret girl whom Mrs. Vallee recently named as corespondent in a suit for divorce with saucer eyes, but otherwise comports himself with poise and wooden dignity. Pelican-nosed Jimmy Durante fondles a wooden duck, raspingly sings ''My Dog Loves Your...
...Turin, Italy, Smerildo Gonnella lay on a wooden cot. wrapped in a tattered shroud, ready for death. Twelve years he has thus been waiting. Predicted Smerildo Gonnella, who has been fed by kindly neighbors, "Any time...