Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...procession was crossing the wooden footbridge over the 130-ft.-wide Gorzone Canal, the children had reached the second verse, which begins: "And When in Heaven Together We'll Sing." Before the eyes of parents watching the procession, two wooden pillars supporting the middle of the bridge buckled and crashed. Don Moses and 72 little girls fell 25 feet into the canal...
...treasurer and five life-term Fellows. The corporation began its work in 1650, when President Henry Dunster and six scholars got a charter of incorporation from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and thus became the administrative masters of 14-year-old Harvard's single wooden building, its 800 books, and the ?30 to ?40 worth of wampum collected each year from the tolls of the Boston-Charlestown ferry...
...combined units will parade past the wooden bleachers, which will serve as a temporary reviewing stand. Provost Buck will head the reviewing officers, and will be joined by Rear-Admiral Hewlett Thebaud, Commandant of the First Naval District...
Conspirator (M-G-M). The Sally Benson script, based on the Humphrey Slater novel, is more a study of stupidity than treason. Robert Taylor, a wooden-faced major in a British Guards regiment, has been a Red agent since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt...
...deal involving Randolph's fiddle: "I now send the bearer for the violin ... I beleive [sic] you had no case to her. If so, be so good as to direct Watt Lenox to get . . . coarse woolen to wrap her in, and then to pack her securely in a wooden...