Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollis--"Wooden Kimono"--8.20 o'clock...
Ticket sales indicate that 50,000 will attend the game Saturday, and all but the wooden seats will be filled...
Sometimes, though, the gloom of this nocturnal-clamor is not false. Last week the Paris, big transatlantic steamer of the French Line, was churning softly down the harbor to the sea. Captain Yves Thomas steered past a line of wooden barges, humped like haymows on the water; wheeled his great ship to pass a steamer. AH he rounded it, he saw the lights of a Norwegian freighter, the Beesengen, riding at anchor. It was too late to swing the bow, too late to reverse his course. Shrill bells and whistles sounded as the bow of the Paris drove into...
...children, railroad presidents, Henry Ford and many miscellaneous spectators, to the number of 1,000,000, since it was opened three weeks ago. On the fairgrounds they have strolled past exhibitions of trunks, tickets, timetables, tableware from Pullmans, telephones, tiny model locomotives, travel-folders, telegraph instruments, types of primitive wooden rails, all of curious and obscure design. Also, they have noted the present day offshoots of all of these. On sidings, huge stallion locomotives from far-away railroads have backed and champed; preposterously outmoded engines, like Shetland ponies, have pawed and whinnied. There were many Indians at the fair, members...
...acquire a complete understanding of the history of music, one must know its earliest phases, the hollow wooden drum as well as the mighty organ, the tortoise-shell lyre of Apollo as well as the Banjo-uke. And today Professor Hill will speak on "Early Instrumental Music" in Music 3 at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...