Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high into the air and made a terrific noise. Big waves of black smoke and debris billowed out of the cave. But this was a well-constructed hole which went deep into the earth and heaven knows how far back. About all that came to the surface was the wooden framing of two-inch planks and a cheap suitcase filled with shirts and silk underwear and an empty cloth pocketbook...
...converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
...Manhattan, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, in distinguished company (see cut), cut a ribbon with a huge pair of wooden shears, thereby turning Fifth Avenue into the "Avenue of the Allies." ¶ At a Chicago war-plant rally, Dancer Juanita Rios sold the nylons off her shapely legs for $1,500 in bonds (see cut). In Greensboro, N.C., one pair of nylons brought $25,000 without benefit of legs. ¶ In Hollywood "Prince" Mike (Harry Gerguson) Romanoff, proprietor of a fashionable movie-colony restaurant, offered a free case of Scotch (any brand) to each $10,000 bond purchaser, sold a case...
...bombs to the destruction. Grey-black clouds puffed up from the land to shroud the sun rising over Normandy. he Wreckers. Under the fiery canopy the engineers and Army & Navy demolition units had crawled ashore. Hidden by the sea at high tide were concrete piers, pointed steel and wooden stakes. At low tide, they were visible. On the beach itself were great tripods of steel rails, braced steel fences, all of them ingeniously mined. The demolition units went to work clearing paths while German shells fell among them and German machine gunners hidden in tunnels and six-foot-thick...
cabbage patch, a 14-year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...