Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skimmed. In Jamestown, N.Y., a half-full milk bottle skidded off a window sill, plummeted six stories, crashed through a thin wooden panel, landed bolt upright, unbroken...
...Little Hall fire charred eight feet of wooden flooring and caused about $350 worth of damage on Tuesday morning before hook and ladder apparatus were called...
...Across the magnificent prospects of New Delhi's viceregal gardens, Lord Wavell watched a team of bullocks draw a wooden plow through 70 acres of lawn. Maize, wheat and vegetables would grow there-too little and too late to relieve the famine that had already begun. Noting that few Delhi Britons followed the Viceroy's example, the Hindustan Times bitterly suggested: "Perhaps if the effect is heightened by alternating red tomatoes with green grass, New Delhi may be able to preserve its esthetic soul intact and appease the hunger of the masses. As for tampering with private rosebuds...
Around the diggings grew up the bustling company town of Anyox (pronounced Annie-ox) with an annual payroll of $1,500,000, a population of 2,500. There were three churches, a two-story wooden hotel, a nine-hole golf course on a slag fill in Granby Bay. But mounting costs shut down the mine in 1935, and Anyox shut up shop, too. Only a few watchmen remained. When lightning in 1942 fired the "tinder-dry slopes behind Anyox and roared down on the deserted town, most of its weathered buildings went up in flames...
Most of Benton's recent pictures stayed comfortably close to the farm, and included a diversity of crops (Shucking Corn, Sugar Cane, Rice Threshing). But among his new claims to fame was one stylized, swirling arrangement of "Cowboys" and wooden-looking Indians which Benton had first envisioned through a glass of beer. Said he: "As far back as I can remember, the Anheuser-Busch brewery used a picture of Custer's last stand on their calendars. I've seen it in every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because...