Word: ire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five engines and a small crowd of 200 persons gathered within a short time. Mocking cries of "Fire" added to the ire of the fire company until threats of the hose dampened the enthusiasm of those looking on from the nearby windows...
...Morgan Ire. On board also, and the especial charge of Mr. Morgan, was Miss Elizabeth Morrow, daughter of Ambassador to Mexico Dwight W. Morrow. Rumors that Miss Morrow, 25, or her sister, Anne, 22, was to marry Col. Lindbergh had been printed. Lindbergh was a guest of Ambassador Morrow in Mexico City. The ship-news reporters were instructed to ask Miss Morrow all about...
IRELAND Royalty Last week, Princess Mary and her tall husband, Viscount Lascelles, landed in Ire- land. Not since 1921 when King George attended the opening of the Ulster Parliament in Belfast had British royalty stepped upon Irish soil. Therefore it was of great interest to see how Princess & husband would be greeted. When first they landed at Kingstown harbor, loyal welcoming Irishmen cheered, waved flags. But others, unruly, loudly hissed, catcalled. Princess Mary & husband then motored to their castle at Portumna, on the river Shannon. Through the courtesy of the Free State Government a bullet proof automobile was lent...
...Manhattan-on-the-roof facetiously commented upon the alcoholic content of the ship's beverage supply. Many a snippy monoplane, a half-dozen biplanes swirled like fleas about the elephantine Zeppelin. One of them, a plane bearing news photographers, nearly brushed the hide of the ship, aroused the nervous ire of Eckener, who frantically waved the annoying flea away, but not before excellent shots of the gaping wound in the port stabilizer had been obtained. Somewhere near the Harlem River the ship dipped her nose?notice of an impending countermarch?and turned. Through the tweedy haze she followed the Hudson...
Sculptor Lukeman felt inclined to sue Mr. Venable. He said he had completed one third of the central group of three horses and riders for $180,000, that he could complete the rest within six months for $75,000. With the frantic ire of the artist whos work is criticized before it is finished, he called attention to the fact that most of General Lee was still in rough outline. Replying to Mr. Venable's threatening assertion that he had turned the rights over to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sculptor Lukeman continued: " The Daughters ... are now shoulder...