Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This possibility has been strengthened by the discovery of what may be a fashion model in Tutankhamen's last resting place. This is the life-size wooden statue of a young woman, coated over with plaster, and painted with an enigmatic smile which can only be compared to that of the comparatively young and blooming Mona Lisa. This inhabitant of Egypt, past and present, may be a likeness of her imperial majesty, Queen Ankhsenpaten, for she has gazed at the dead prince with a never-failing smile for more than a hundred generations--proof enough of devotion. But some skeptics...
...cause of the fire was an overheated furnace which ignited the nearby wooden wall. One sofa was wholly destroyed, while six desks were burned...
...would have thought that a little wooden vessel, displacing only sixty tons, measuring only 110 feet in length, and manned by officers and crew very few of whom had ever made an ocean voyage, could have crossed more than three thousand miles of wintry sea, even with the help of the efficient naval officers and men who, after training them, convoyed and guided them across, and could have done such excellent work in hunting submarines. We built nearly four hundred of these little vessels in 18 months, and we sent 170 to such widely scattered places as Plymouth, Queenstown, Brest...
...Henry Jewett Company, ensconced in their remodeled theatre, which in its present stage of hospitality is approached by a wooden bridge from Dartmouth Street to the Box Office, presented "Pygmalion" last evening to an enthusiastic audience. There was a slight smell of fresh paint about everything except the performance, which gave promise of a brilliant season. Two of the principal roles were acted by Mr. Clive and Mr. Wingfield, who had done them almost as well before. Miss Willard played Eliza Dolittle with originality and grace. She was not able to make her flower-girl accent sufficiently distinct, except...
...doesn't allow them to see the game at all. And if it cuts them in half, the Senior for whom the CRIMSON is pleading won't sit one section nearer the playing field, and the graduate will be moved but two rows up or down, in the wooden stands whichever way the drawing happens to fall. All I can say, I wish we had more organizations as efficient and as conscientious as that run by our Graduate Treasurer, a man who never gets any praise, but who in spite of the fact that he gets every kind...