Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Bar's wide wooden counter, MacKenzie County farmers, their jeans heavy with cash, drank up 40 cases of beer a day. At Christensen's hardware store they stripped the shelves nearly bare. They played poker, guzzled, loafed, had Doc Winter put gold in their teeth...
...yards against a handful of the prophet's followers. Euclides da Cunha was an army engineer and newspaper correspondent who went through the fighting and wrote his masterpiece as an "involuntary attack" on the Brazilian army. He wrote it at night, building bridges by day, and the wooden shack in which he composed it, beside his bridge over the Rio Pardo, is a venerated Brazilian relic. A plea for Brazilian unity, it is essentially an encyclopedia, almost as difficult reading as one, with its pages of geology as toilsome as the mountain they describe, its descriptions of droughts...
Less Chichi. Nonetheless, most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...
Soon the late great entrepreneur of modern art, Ambroise Vollard, met Vlaminck who was sporting a wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market...
...grave registration, one of the principal tasks of chaplains on the fighting fronts, is to prevent too many "unknown soldiers." Chaplains are taught to erect simple wooden crosses where men have been buried, and to draw maps showing the position of their graves...