Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Pollard, of the ninth generation of Virginia Pollards, is a quiet, meditative man of 58. His eyes twinkle, his lips smile with scholastic humor. At Williamsburg he dwells in a middle-class wooden house in the faculty group, tends a flower garden in the rear, forgets to answer the supper bell. He served his State one term as Attorney-General...
Last week Linz Socialists returned in triumph to the police authorities. On the deck of a Danube freight steamer they had found wooden cases, labeled GLASS WARE, addressed to Prince Ernst von Starhemberg. The cases contained 16,000 rounds of Mauser cartridges...
Jogging home in his high wheeled wooden cart, a Jugoslavian farmer boy looked out last week across a field of maize and thought he saw two peasant women tussling in the twilight. "Don't touch me, Milica!" screamed one. Cracking his whip and clucking to his nag, the farmer boy jogged on. Reaching home he mentioned with a shrug the trivial incident...
...Rainbow Division, you lived with them, you fought with them, you died with them and you won with them. What do you think of them? Do you think they are worthy to be called your comrades?' And from every town and village in France, from every tomb under a wooden cross in military cemeteries, a wonderful voice will answer me: 'They are not our comrades, they are our brothers; their blood is our blood; our brotherhood and comradeship, the brotherhood and comradeship of France and America, which was sealed under the shadow of death...
...heart attack while in swimming, the secret had to do with the dark, strange, warlike people, apparently neither Semitic nor Aryan, who, before Rome was founded, lived on the fertile land between the Tiber and the Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever since. They worshipped strange gods in weird cypress groves and spoke a tongue which no one, except perhaps the scholar who drowned last week, has ever satisfactorily deciphered...