Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundreds of excursion boats yelled themselves hoarse. But at Volendam and Marken, those overexploited bits of quaintness, fishing boats were tied in glum rows to the quays, their painted sideboards hauled out of the water, their flags at half-mast. Fisher folk clumped gloomily over the cobblestones in wooden shoes...
Joel Barber carved his own wooden decoys: a swan, two mallards, a pintail...
...Henry Thornton came forward to take full responsibility for the $110,000 suite, but there was the additional matter of the Premier's private railway car. Mr. Bennett had been using a wooden private car known as Old York, once used by Canada's Governor Generals. Ever thoughtful Sir Henry built a brand new private car of his own, offered to swap it for Old York. The swap was made. Explained Sir Henry...
...avert an overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...
...attempt to do it all in one picture-comedy, romance, adventure, slapstick and satire on industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes owner of a phonograph shop, then a department store, then a vast phonograph factory...