Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provides most of their homes, which are the talk of the sourdoughs: wooden houses perched on stilts above the muskeg, equipped with hot-&-cold running water, electric refrigerators, carpets, curtains, dishes. Right outside their doors is the Alaskan wilderness...
During the ensuing concert I wandered through the various rooms greeting old friends-mostly waiters recruited from the Metropole. Sitting stiffly, but beautiful in tails, on a wooden bench near the coatracks were Dmitri Shostakovich and his wife. His sensitive poet's face looked bored. They said that they hoped to go to the U.S. after...
...British Foreign Office's censors are two retired diplomats: 1) Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson, 70; 2) Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare,* 62. Said Sir Robert at his small wooden desk at the Ministry of Information: "They think we are interfering old fogies, but we are not. Our job is to see that stories are not cabled that are likely to stir up discord between the Allies...
Peace years have always meant student life at its very richest exuberance to Hollis. From the close of the Revolution, through five major wars, the tone of life has little changed. The misarranged flues, scattering smoke through rooms, lavatory and halls, the mice, the gradual sagging of the wooden floors that always meant that the atmosphere that was Harvard's was very much Hollis'. And the affinity of local characters to this old structure only added to the legend...
...different generations, there were different men. First it was Billy the Postman, the first mail-carrier the Yard ever knew, who made the sagging wooden steps his lecture platform, and the students, then upperclassmen, his audience. Then Copey captured the imagination of the literary community with his intimate soirees in 13-15, gatherings that were to be the inspiration for men such as Reed, Lippmann, and Des Passos...