Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their homes in Norway and those who return again to their homes in North Dakota, always homesick for homes across the sea wherever they...
Edward S. Jordan, President of Jordan Motors, pointed modestly to his battered car, to the magnificent Mercedes, to the fact that the Ford and Dodge Companies are using steel bodies. He declared that just as the old wooden Pullman cars have been discarded, so wooden automobile bodies will in a few years be obsolete. Said he: "It's the splinters that kill. . . . Steel laughs at shocks that demolish wood. . . . Smaller, lighter, more economical, better looking, longer lasting motor cars are coming...
...papers have had their fling at the students of Northwestern University who recently staged so striking a demonstration to commemorate their football successes of the past season. The celebration took the form of incendiarism. Revelers set fire to an abandoned fraternity house and to the wooden stands surrounding the old athletic field...
...disposal, liquid and otherwise, the students of Northwestern University felt that their football celebration was still too cramped. So they turned pyromaniac and burned and abandoned fraternity house. Even after firemen and policemen dragged them away, and put out the fire, they were determined to burn at least the wooden stands around the old athletic field. No doubt the Chicago Tribune will see in this burst of enthusiasm new proof of the superior virility of western college youth...
Last week the Cunard Liner Mauretania arrived from Southampton with a number of heavy wooden cases consigned to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan-the first shipment of the Leverhulme Art Collection. "More will arrive by every mailboat till the end of the year," said Mr. Kennerley, looking thoughtfully at the cases. "No, I don't know what's in them...