Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palm Beach season swung into its second week. Closed for the first time in 40 years was the Royal Poinciana, world's largest wooden hotel. The Breakers did a nice business at $26 a day. More shops were opened than at any time since 1929, but Best, Macy, Jay-Thorpe, Bonwit Teller failed to resume branches. Bradley's gambling hall was running full blast. One gamester was reported losing $170,000 one night, recouping it with $5,000 profit the next. Only two private palaces on Ocean Boulevard failed to reopen, those of the late James P. Donahue...
Twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, she used to stand at the head of a long line on Manhattan's Bowery, handing out meal tickets, clothing, spectacles, false teeth, wooden legs, etc. to those in need. It cost her and her friends $35,000 a year, was abandoned when Financier Bush decided that other relief agencies were handling the work effectively...
...impersonation which Edith Evans (last seen in The Lady with a Lamp) brings to the part of Irela, a character in which cruelty, vanity and tenderness fight for the upper hand. As Irela's niece, Miss Jane Wyatt performs capably. But Evensong remains the sort of wooden spectacle in which crowds of supers are led out on the stage to gape at the star, having nothing else...
...Eastern critics were bewildered. No longer ago than October the Legion of Honor Palace gave California its first view of the work of Isamu Noguchi, about as "extreme" a sculptor as the U. S. contains. And on exhibition last week in the Palace was a pair of limbless little wooden figurines called "Mr. & Mrs. Technocrat" by Atanas Katchamakoff. On the other hand, star performer of the Progressives in their department store show was grizzled, close-cropped Beniamino Bufano, an artist of unquestioned ability who paints somewhat in the manner of Diego Rivera but whose sculpture looks like that...
Thirty tons of sand and several large steel plates will furnish backing for the targets and insure against stray bullets, while wooden planking, furnished by the H.A.A. will block off the range from the rest of the district underneath the Stadium...