Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief of Staff. Followed the most brilliant campaign of the whole War. At Tannenburg one Russian army was annihilated, the other was completely broken up; one Russian General committed suicide. Hindenburg overnight became Germany's hero. His appointment as Chief of Staff was inevitable. Germany burgeoned with wooden Hindenburg idols, stuck full of nails...
...projects for planning under capitalism are attempts to invent wooden iron or dry water. Propaganda for return of the pre-machine modes of production is equivalent to preaching that man should do away with clothes, grow hair all over his body and betake himself to the forests. . . . The true way out is not by way of a return to old forms but by going to forms higher than capitalism...
Promptly arrested and sentenced for this crime, they were still in jail last week ?and Scotland's eye was on the House of Commons. In its boxlike wooden hall arose a Scotsman from the banks of Clyde, John McGovern. "The sentence on those four lay preachers," cried he, white-lipped, "was cowardly and brutal!" Turning upon William Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr. McGovern said: "I demand that the Government act to set these preachers free." Put off with an assurance that the Government was "investigating," Clydesider McGovern would not subside or sit down. "I demand Justice...
...last time Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel had to act in an emergency (an Honorable Member was trying to carry off the Mace?TIME, July 28, 1930), his old sword caught his old legs and tripped him neatly as he tried to rise from his little wooden pew. But last week Sir Colin Keppel and his six elderly assistants in full evening dress had plenty of time. Stiff and still stood their quarry. Slowly, majestically they made at John McGovern and laid hands upon...
...smokes large black cigars when golfing, observes few of the niceties usually appreciated by onetime caddies whose golfing proficiency has enabled them to know nice people. Before the Open started, theorists spoke well of Burke's chances. The week before, in the Ryder Cup matches, he had kept his wooden shots straight, a trick that would be valuable on a narrow, well-trapped short course like Inverness, where Ted Ray won the U. S. Open...