Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with whom greatness abides. The German people have never doubted it?not though he seems "too old"; not though Herr Erich Ludendorff was supposed to be his "real brains"; not even though it has been said that as President he has been the ponderous wooden puppet of the Nationalists...
...created by the people of the United States to do for them certain things which they could not do so well themselves. To choose their representatives was not one of them. . . . Is the Senate empowered to say that any of us in Connecticut who ever sold a wooden nutmeg shall not come here...
...faded gilt, on the wooden facades of turnpike hotels, and on the signs of gloomy but unclosed saloons near the dockyards and railway stations of cities, one still encounters the words "EHRET'S BEER ON DRAUGHT." Last week George Ehret, 92, died in Manhattan of pneumonia. He left...
Before the ground was cleared for the laboratories that are going up on it, it was occupied by several old houses which were moved away or torn down during the past fall. As soon as the last traces of these wooden structures had been removed, which was about a week ago, the present contractors and builders moved in and started work leveling the ground off and digging out the foundations' hole. Two steam shovels are at present in operation and a third will shortly be added, the work being pushed forward with great rapidity...
...last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...