Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Betsy Ann and the Chris Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short of insulting to a little wooden ship who had made speed records 30 years ago on the Mississippi and who had a pair of gold-tipped elk horns to prove her an undefeated champion. The Betsy Ann's owner, Frederick Way, staked the elk horns that Captain Chris Greene was wrong and told...
Using a queer,concave-faced, wooden putter, Thomas Armour won the Metropolitan Open Golf Championship last week, at the Shackamaxon Country Club, Westfield, N. J. John Farrell, National Open champion, finished second...
Also, further your writer continues, "Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner." I wonder if the writer has seen Service for Ladies, Gentleman of Paris, Serenade, all made within the past year...
...thought apparently so divergent as the Stadium and Miss Margaret Anglin seem to have no meeting place that is not the result of hyper liberalizing the meanings of each. There has been headline material in both within the past two days: the Stadium in the settled matter of wooden seats. Miss Anglin in her plan to produce the Electra of Sophocles in the Greek temple of Roger Williams Park in Providence. Connection between these unlikes lies in the out of door drama, of which Miss Anglin is now America's greatest exponent, and of which the Stadium in more felicitous...
...refusal of the Harvard Corporation on May 28 to approve plans proposed to erect portable steel stands in the open end of the Stadium had left the substitution of the old wooden seats as the only practical method remaining to accommodate the crowds of the 1928 football season. The permission once more to erect these sheds, condemned by civic authorities because of fire danger, was granted with the understanding that no such concession would be made after the fall...