Word: ire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assaults on their livelihood are an old story to chiropractors. Their curative technique (chiefly spinal manipulation) rouses the ire of many a medical man. The American Medical Association has long waged bitter warfare against chiropractic. In five States chiropractors may be arrested for chiropracticing without a medical license...
...lighthouse keeper at Fastnet, Ire land, tells visitors that waves often go over the dome of his light, 150 ft. above the level of the frothy ocean. Whether this is true or not, ocean yachtsmen know that the 720-mi. race of the Royal Ocean Racing Club of England, from Cowes to Lonely Light at Fastnet and back again, is the most dangerous in the world. Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground...
...Senate cannot command respect even from its own subordinates, its prestige in the country at large must suffer. And when all this is added to the protracted Bronx cheer which the nation's press has directed at the defenceless lame ducks, there is small wonder that the Senatorial ire is aroused...
...about his waist line, he works daily in the Senate gymnasium. Joe, his Chinese cook, he has had for over 20 years. He gets about in a Locomobile town car. He lost two cars by fire when he was living at Calvert Manor, outside Washington which, much to his ire, was bought from under him by Arkansas' late Senator Caraway. He sallies occasionally into official society, entertains friends at home with current cinema hits on his private standard-sized projector. He is well off. not rich...
...Oldroyd blood begins to thin out. Francis, his son, marries Jane's daughter, finds Syke Mill drifting into ruin after the War. There is not much that he or his boy David can do. After the crash, David jumps off the train on which his father is escaping from Ire Valley, starts back to make, presumably, a new beginning...