Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City. As Larsen E. Whipsnead of the radio, or Cuthbert J. Twillie in My Little Chickadee, he was simply being himself. He was born Claude William Dukenfield, son of a poverty-stricken Philadelphia family. When he was about eleven he crowned his father with a heavy wooden box in retaliation for a whipping and ran away from home. He slept in alleys and on porches, often awoke in agony from cold. He stole milk, crept into saloons to snatch free lunch. He was always using his fists and always coughing (he later discovered that he had had tuberculosis...
...with miniature bas-reliefs and statuettes of the Passion, Thomas à Becket, the lives of the saints, and the bleeding head of John the Baptist (see cut). The panels were carved from soft, creamy alabaster quarried at Tutbury and Chellaston Hill, then were painted, gilded, and generally built into wooden boxes with hinged doors for private worshipers to part...
Poverty for All. Those who come to St. F.X.'s modest brick and wooden buildings soon get to know the broad-minded Roman Catholic priest who is the director of the college's extension department: the Rev. Dr. Moses Matthias Coady. His ringing voice, ruddy features and muscular 250 pounds are familiar all over the Maritimes. He was born on a farm in a Nova Scotian village, tiny Margaree Forks, which had poverty aplenty. He studied in Antigonish, in Rome, and in Washington, taught school, preached, but never forgot his birthplace...
...sabers, glinting silver. Behind them came the royal coach, drawn by four grey horses, with the driver and two footmen splashes of vivid scarlet above the deep maroon of the coachwork. Through the windows the crowds could see the King in an admiral's uniform, sitting erect and wooden-faced under his gold-peaked cap, while the Queen, with her plump, pink-and-white face, powder blue hat, grey-fawn furs, was all smiles and gracious waves. The Welsh Guards Band played God Save the King as the coach went...
...center of gentility and wealth as opposed to the rowdier patronage of the Oxford Grille and Cronin's Bar. White-coated waiters circulate through small smoky rooms amidst photographs of athletic greats of years gone by, and generations of Elis have left their marks on the old wooden tables. Focal point of the club, of course, is the Whiffenpoof table, where congregate those who made Mory's famous, the names of all past Whiffenpoofs being stylishly inscribed thereon...