Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police equipment, farthest south from the unarmed bobbies of London with their wooden truncheons (see p. 19) are the carabineros of Chile, who in times of emergency are encumbered with a pistol, a rifle, a sabre, a lance and a horse. Some 7,500 of them clattered into Santiago last week to keep the peace during Chile's sixth change of government but first legal election in five months. Of all the Generals, Colonels and ex-Ambassadors who have seized the presidential chair this year, only one got his name on the ballot: Spanish-Irish Colonel Marmaduke Grove...
...pages, eleven poems. Poet Masefield telescopes the Iliad's 24 books, hitting such high spots as Paris' rape of Helen, Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia for a favorable wind, and focusing on wily Odysseus' successful gate-crashing scheme of the Wooden Horse. Though he contributes no mighty lines or markedly memorable verse to the Troy legend, Masefield's dramatic narrative, in which different speakers take up the story in turn, adds some freshness of its own to an oft-told tale...
...daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book had indicated. To better them she began by building a wooden chapel-school in the Indian Territory for the Osages. When a cyclone wrecked it she built another, then founded a dozen Indian boarding schools in the far West. Katharine Drexel planned an order devoted to the Indians, learned she must first undergo the usual convent discipline In 1889 she pledged her entire income...
Iron men and wooden ships-the cat-o'-nine-taiis-South Sea paradise-mutiny- shipwreck-open boats-a trial for piracy, with perjury and missing witnesses-unjust sentence-happy ending-these are the time-honored ingredients of Authors Nordhoff & Hall's surefire seafaring tale...
...been leased to a speakeasy. Realtors fear the proposed trans-Bay bridges may increase commuting. Dwellings are 32% vacant in San Francisco. Rentals in the cheaper districts north of Market Street ("The Slot") run about $25 for a two-room apartment, a 10% reduction. Similar reductions prevail in the wooden, stucco-faced buildings on the Marina, where stood the be jeweled buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915). In the residential section rents are off about 20%. Hotel suites (for permanent guests) are down one-third...