Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attractive brunette (Evelyn Brent), whom he is prepared to marry at the end of the picture. High Pressure, well directed by Mervyn LeRoy, is rapid, trivial, dextrous and absurd. Good shot: Powell, rewarded with $100,000 for his synthetic rubber company, planning to capitalize a concern for making wooden airplanes...
...Indian island of Bali are lazy, rich, amenable, clever. Their soil is so fertile that they can raise three crops a year with almost no effort. They divide their spare time between the practice of the arts (music, dancing, sculpture) and the practice of eccentric rites, such as building wooden statues to serve as decoys for devils. Balinese music influenced Debussy. Balinese dancers inspired that able U. S. dancer, Ruth Page (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929). Even before Hickman Powell's travel book, The Last Paradise, Bali was on its way toward becoming the latest and most approved resting spot...
...forth. He is so tired of strewing roses from the CRIMSON Building to Sever 11 for English or Greek professors to tread upon as they go to deliver a lecture on the "Use of the Infinitive in Chaucer," or "The Place of the Hammer in the Building of the Wooden Horse." It requires all his alchemy to turn such prosey matter into palatable pap for the undergraduate. The sweet, sad music of humanity has suddenly become rather blatant jazz. And in, addition all this about the Vagabond wandering as he listeth with no man for his master, caring only...
When the porter who opens packages addressed to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein found a heavy wooden box he was wisely suspicious and promptly summoned building guards. The guards called police. The police suggested the Bureau of Standards and the Bureau of Standards referred them to the Bureau of Mines. The Bureau of Mines thought the bomb should be opened at the Naval Research Laboratory. At the laboratory a squad of marines fired several rifle bullets into the box. Then an expert, working with mirrors and long implements from behind an iron shield, pried the lid open. They found...
...imitation of these, the Museum of the City of New York was organized in 1923 under the leadership of Harry Collins Brown, longtime editor of Valentine's Manual, with the enthusiastic support of Banker James Speyer, Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham. For several years it occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land, a building fund was raised, an architectural competition was held. The competition was won by dapper little Joseph Henry Freedlander, an architect...