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Word: woodenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise The Queen of Sin and left lying about with a note of introduction from Sodom and Gomorrah. The police discovered her-and the hole in her back showing her wooden spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hoaxer | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...Brown supporters occupying 11 entire sections, the estimated attendance tomorrow will be about 45,000, which is greater by 5000 than the crowd which attended the same game last year. About the only tickets which are left on sale now are those in the colonnade, the bowl, and the wooden stands. These seats are still on sale at the Cambridge and Boston agencies, and at Soldiers Field on the afternoon of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL YALE GAME TICKET APPLICATIONS FILLED | 11/14/1924 | See Source »

Both the Lilliputians and Mitty and Tillio are regarded in Paris as belonging to the enthusiastic category of the "wows." In the Ziegfeld Follies, they seemed only pretty good. The former did a wooden soldiers march that might have created feverish rejoicing if wooden soldiers had not already marched so many miles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 10, 1924 | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...cage lead in will be taken into a wooden cabin which also is to be placed on top of the Stadium and adjoining the football press seats. This cabin is to be 12 by 12 and will contain all the necessary apparatus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wireless Club Will Send Messages to All Europe and America From New High Power Station on Top of Stadium | 10/28/1924 | See Source »

Cotxage Farm Bridge will be open only to traffic going toward Boston, and the temporary wooden bridge open only to Cambridge traffic during rush hours before and after the game. Boylston Street and North Harvard Street will be altogether closed to traffic after 1 o'clock, while Memorial Drive will be closed between Western Avenue and River Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE ADOPT SPECIAL RULES TO HANDLE TRAFFIC JAM | 10/25/1924 | See Source »

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