Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After midnight, when the fourth floor guard had passed the collection of the late Col. Michael Friedsam. the lurking thieves walked silently up into the dim-lit gallery. Swiftly & neatly they unhung ten famed paintings, turned them over, knifed out the wooden panels from the back, removed the canvases on their stretchers. They unrolled a 70-ft. length of heavy sash rope, tied one end to a newel post on the fourth floor landing, dropped the other out a window. There was no moon...
...South America, the Westphalen was to drop anchor and remain indefinitely as a way station for transoceanic aircraft. Onetime freight steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Westphalen has been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern. A seaplane or amphibian alighting at the station taxies up the apron to be hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen's deck. Also she provides radio, weather forecasting...
...police. Special attention has been given to cars parked on streets where there are fire hazards. Riverside Street in front of the Houses facing on the river must be kept clear by orders of the fire department. Those streets in back of Dunster House where there are many wooden buildings are also considered to be in a fire hazard district...
...exuberant Professor William Lyon Phelps one night last week as he left Yale's Sprague Memorial Hall.* He had been listening to an "Old Timers' Concert" of the Yale Glee Club, reviving popular college songs of the century past. The Howard twins had rendered an 1867 overture, "Wooden Spoon Lancers." Tom Hewes, Class of 1910, had whistled "The Yellow Bird." Another gentleman had yodeled. Carl Lohmann, secretary of the University, had sung Kipling's "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." And the Glee Club had rousingly performed such numbers as "The Pope" ("He leads a jolly life, jolly life . . ."); "Church...
...First was a Confederate wooden gunboat which plied the Savannah River in 1864. Second was a steel freighter used as a cargo carrier in the World War. The city is in the Congressional district represented by Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee...