Word: iron-clad
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...ship was the bouncing little British fleet-sweeper, Jonquil. One shell from the London could scuttle it. Not until the British had established their safety zone did the Portuguese ships begin a fitful bombardment. Soon Minister of Marine Commandante Magalhaes Correia sent a transport and the 55-year-old iron-clad Vasco da Gama clanking down the Madeira coast to land a punitive force on the beach at Santa Cruz and attack Funchal from the rear...
...sometimes said that, what with all the beard, gestures, famed lines and ancient prejudices that cluster about Shylock, the part is an iron-clad one; and that. since the play is either tragedy or comedy depending on the audience, it might be done as well by Eddie Cantor as by a Great Actor. However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia. And the Arliss tour was memorable for its introduction of the youngest Portia, and one of the best, on record...
...bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality, and as proof of its potability offered an iron-clad guarantee: "If you are not satisfied with the champagne you make, your money will be returned to you. "If you are not satisfied, we will send a man to destroy the champagne and he will give you a check. "If you spoil it through your own negligence...
...School leaflets, the reading of the Ten Commandments in Church, Elmer Gantry vice crusades, or the Pope issuing edicts on the dress of women, are about as effective weapons in deterring people from immoral acts as an Indian bow and arrow would be in piercing the side of an iron-clad battleship. It is not the business of the Church to legislate in morals. . . . The Church's business is to set forward great principles, and not to lay down minute moral directions...
...every year some 2000 certificates remain unused. How better could they be applied than to avoid the shortcomings of necessary provisions? The mechanics of immigration regulations is a matter for experts, but the most inexperienced can appreciate an effort to introduce a measure of discretion to problems where an Iron-clad ruling cannot fall, sometimes to be unfair...