Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past fallow fields, thin thickets, ragged coverts and other unfortunate evidences of that dilapidated state into which nature habitually falls in winter. The crow stopped occasionally, but it covered about half a mile, as an erratic crow flies, before it roosted invitingly in a tree just beyond a ramshackle, wooden building. Frank crossed a mossy log over a creek and got within 100 feet of his quarry. Balancing there, he drew a bead and fired...
Uncle Joe came up the hard way, and the country respected him for it. As a boy he sold calico and plowshares to support his widowed mother. Later he read law in a Terre Haute law office, slept on a wooden bench in the office. When he started practice, in Shelbyville, Ill., he was glad to trudge 20 miles to earn a $5 fee. He did not have to trudge long. A Congressman at 36, Uncle Joe spent 23 terms in the House, four of them as Speaker. But somewhere along the line, Uncle Joe got out of step...
...legend; the H.D.C. has the cast. Donald Mork, as the witch-boy, pulled the play together with his intensity. Francis Hart was an effective preacher. Martha Orrick, John Miles, Ian Cadenhead and Janet Sobel skillfully held up important minor roles. Only June Northrop, as the witch boy's somewhat wooden love, let her part become stereotyped. She was the only weak person in a strong cast...
...Berlin's bustling Schloss Strasse last week, worshipers streamed silently into St. Matthew's Evangelical Church. With none of the vestibule chatter common to most church crowds, they seated themselves on straight-backed wooden chairs facing a simple black cross above the plain altar. They did not sing, give hearty responses or even say amen. The only voice was that of elderly (59) Pastor Otto Bartel, who for 29 years has ministered to Berlin's deaf-mutes...
...Roosevelt Jr. '09, who came to Harvard in 1905 while his father was President. He lived a "moderate" life, though not the "simple undergraduate life" that his father preached when addressing the College the preceding spring. The President, while an undergraduate during the 1870's, had lived in a wooden house on Winthrop Street, but son "went Gold Coast" with a $350-a-year Claverly suite...