Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire during which both did rescue work, Prisoners Grate and Gibbons incriminated themselves by a note intercepted between them. Their first attempt at incendiarism, they confessed, was made with a crude kerosene fire bomb in December 1929. It failed. Twice again the plotters tried unsuccessfully to burn the wooden forms surrounding the concrete beams of a cell-block under construction. Fourth and successful attempt was made by filling a gravy bowl with oil and shavings, using two candles for a fuse...
...removing all six miles of board walks from paths in the Yard, and in other University property has been completed. Announcement has been made that a four-year program of macadamizing the present walks will start this summer. If appropriations are generous enough, authorities hope to eliminate all wooden walks...
...Madrid, mechanically-minded medical students approached their school bearing in triumph a large wooden catapult with which they intended to cobblestone the police. The police, in their tightly belted, skirtlike green-grey capes, charged before the catapult could be set up. There was a fusillade of shots. A Civil guard cavalryman was killed. A messenger boy delivering football tickets 100 yards down the street was severely wounded. Two days later Madrid students attempted a march on the Royal Palace, led by dozens of shouting, excited girls. Police, with Spanish gallantry kept their swords sheathed, thumped the girls' heads with rubber...
...decorations will include a ceiling with large beams and a wooden floor done in Florentine style. A genuine antique Italian fireplace has been purchased and will soon be installed. As the gift of Mrs. F. B. Browning, daughter-in-law of the poet, a large carved sideboard in Italian style will be placed in the room to carry out the effect. As Professor Baxter explained, the chairs and lounges will not be of the straight-backed Italian type, but large and comfortable with Florentine fabrics...
Then the earth wobbled; stone buildings fell apart; wooden ones crumpled: Earthquake. A tidal wave tore over the sea wall, sucked the low-lying shore buildings into its wash. Fire broke out, swept over the debris, for scarcely one building remained erect in Napier. News of the disaster spread fast. Wellington rushed doctors, nurses, medical supplies and food by train. By sea New Zealand's two cruisers Dunedin and Diomede sped to help...