Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chute, over a fire and out of a faucet marked "Hot." He lives in a "penthouse," an impressive four-room house on a platform that must have taken the United Artists carpenter crew months to make (not to speak of the months they must have spent making hollowed wooden dishes, sharpened shell knives and scissors, woven blankets and tapestries, basket work). He has an elaborate machine to throw a fishnet far out to sea, a trolley to carry him down the mountainside. From a savage whom he tries to make his Man Friday, who escapes after Fairbanks has shown...
...work began on the Harvard stands and has progressed to the middle of the bowl, which will probably not be very full for the first-two games. On that and a large wooden shute leading up to the rim of the Stadium has been set up carry off the debris of the repairs...
...vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert Marshall, able English stage veteran, grinds out an unsympathetic thankless supporting role; Dickie Moore unfortunately remains Dickie Moore; and only to Cary Grant may credit be given for breaking the Teutonic spell of wooden, unimaginative direction...
...banderilleros. When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes. Then the mounted picadors enter, the bull charges them, often kills the horse but always gets a wound in the shoulder-muscle from the picador's lance. Next, four pairs of banderillas (barbed wooden shafts) are stuck into the top of the bull's neck by the banderilleros or, with musical accompaniment, by the matador himself. Then the matador takes the bull alone, plays him with the muleta (red cloth), kills him with a sword. If the crowd approves a matador and his suertes...
...pews, of pine, are painted white and the windows are of plain glass, in keeping with the Colonial architecture. The pulpit, dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks '55, and the crest-adorned wooden screen behind it, which separates the nave from the choir, are of oak. It is in the choir, which perpetuates the name of Appleton Chapel, that the regular morning services will ordinarily be held...