Word: iris
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journeyed to Chicago with her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur (Front Page), to defend an alienation-of-affections suit brought by his first wife. In 1920 MacArthur, then a flighty Chicago newshawk, married a fellow-reporter named Carol Frink. She divorced him in 1926. In 1928 he married Actress Hayes. Iri 1932 two cinema magazines published confessional interviews with Cinemactress Hayes clearly intimating that MacArthur had ditched Miss Frink for her. Miss Frink then sued...
Before matches, all contestants hold a dance called dohyo-iri (ring entry) wearing damask aprons embroidered to indicate their rank. Next they assure audiences of their sincerity by putting their left hands on their hearts, stretching out their right. After bending his knees, clapping his hands three times, spreading his arms out straight, shaking each leg, a wrestler removes his apron, purifies himself by putting salt on himself and the ring. Only then can the match start...
...pages have been written about Hydro, most of them dedicated to the proposition that this classic example of public ownership does-or does not- sell power as cheaply as could a private company. There is little argument about actual domestic rates: they are lower, with rare exceptions, than any iri the U. S. The squabble is over technicalities like the question of whether Hydro favors domestic customers at the expense of commercial and industrial users; or what adjustment should be made for Hydro's low taxes. Most comparisons of Hydro's rates with U. S. rates are illogical...
...bowing, murmuring, "Your Highness! Your Highness!" When Beethoven played and Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven "lectured him sharply on his sentimentality." Afterwards Goethe seldom mentioned Beethoven, but sometimes he had his music played. But the music scared him, he never really liked it. He would sit iri a corner and growl: "It is stupendous, absolutely mad. It makes me almost fear that the house will collapse. And supposing the whole of mankind played it at once...