Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British method and will not appeal greatly to Americans, who now favor the curt backswing with a short-shafted, large-headed club. In the U. S. there is not as much distinction between a "swung" wooden shot and a "hit" iron shot as Tolley makes...
...great stories of the Trojan War was the wooden horse. One of the best stories of the World War was the wooden ships. Now their weather-worn hulks are lying in profitless decay...
...Shipping Board wanted to dispose of them on any terms. The Western Marine and Salvage Co. came forward with an offer. On the calm waters of the River James, lay 218 ships, the pride of the U. S. wooden navy, built at a cost of $235 million. The Salvage Co. has taken an option on the entire lot. Ten are to be burned. If the iron and copper salvaged from the ashes repay the effort, the whole fleet will be bought...
...must go. A history of Carnegie Hall would be a history of modern music. Tchaikovsky conducted his own works there in 1891. Since that time, every composer of any importance has had his compositions performed at Carnegie, and many distinguished moderns have appeared on the bare wooden platform in person. It has also been used as a synagogue and as the scene of stormy political meetings...
Little horses, nervy and debonair, clipping the turf with pointed hoofs, mallets whacking, riders shouldering, wheeling, while young Royalty looks on. At Meadow Brook, the background is grass; at the Wanamaker Art Gallery, Manhattan, it is canvas. An exhibit of Poloiana has opened there. A wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient...