Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clattering wooden geta the little old men who act as newsboys in Tokyo ran through the streets last week shouting an extra. It was the first direct word that either Japan or China had had of an event that seeped to the rest of the world several days earlier: truce and cessation of Chinese-Japanese hostilities in North China...
There are over 1,200 species of termite, some 40 of them in the U. S. New York's variety builds its labyrinthine nests in the soil beneath buildings, crawls up into wooden beams and floors. It eats from the inside so that owners are unaware of damage until shell-like or spongy timbers collapse. First intimation a young New Jersey couple got was when they beheld, through a gaping parlor floor, their grand piano in the cellar...
Best fun of all is saved for those who will enjoy it most-small boys and girls. For them has been created the five-acre fairyland, guarded by mammoth wooden elephants, which Mrs. Dawes dedicated last week. Children may wander past pleasantly fearsome caves and pirates' dens, meet a fairy princess, shake hands with a Bagdad giant 7 ft. 7 in. tall. There is a miniature zoo filled with baby animals which, by contract, must be replaced if they show signs of growing up. There is the World's Largest Marble, seven feet in diameter, in a gleaming...
...cast by the superstructure of the elevated railway, a vast and gloomy pergola rising to meet the rungs of blackened fire escapes which hang from the buildings like the foliage of a fantastic iron jungle. No. 63 Allen Street, near the corner of Grand, is a large green-painted wooden door with a rusty lock and bar. Above some ash cans floats a white hand in eerie benediction. Beneath the hand is painted: E. A. RIDLEY, Sub-Basement...
...kitchen plate he uses for a palette, climbed nimbly down the ladder. Mr. Robertson handed him an envelop. It held a check for $14,000, last payment on the $21,000 due Rivera for his work. It held too a letter telling him he was fired. Artist Rivera woodenly went to his work shack on the lobby balcony to change from his overalls. At once more guards appeared, pushed away the movable scaffold. Others came with planking. Within half an hour, the unfinished fresco was covered with tarpaper and a wooden screen. Meanwhile one of Rivera's assistants rushed...