Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Residency. No royal and ruling Indian, not even His Exalted Highness, ever escapes a British Residency, an outpost of London which makes him feel the more or less iron hand of Britain in a less or more velvet glove. In his early days as Hyderabad's ruler the present Nizam dismissed the Diwan or acting cabinet and directed affairs as his own Prime Minister for some years with such vigor that "The Residency" was often rumored pressing for his abdication. Came the War. The Nizam's $100,000,000 gift to Britain squared many things, and Sir Akbar...
Died. Count Francisco Matarazzo, 86, "Brazil's richest man," Italian-born Sao Paulo industrialist; after brief illness; in Rio de Janeiro. The Matarazzo United Industries produce rice, starch, rayon, cotton, liquor, fish oil, fish meal, lipstick, face powder, sugar, motion pictures, vegetable oils, linseed oil, iron and aluminum products, castor oil, coffee, flour...
...there were iron deer on U. S. lawns, lending the last touch of grandeur to the fancy wooden scrollwork of the mansions behind them. Every home that could afford one had a "den," with leather armchair, pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered...
...debt on a new cathedral. In 1918 he became Archbishop of Philadelphia where ever since the name of "Dockerty" (as many of his flock pronounce it) has been a potent one. Strictest disciplinarian of the four U. S. Cardinals, he rules his clergy with an iron hand, insists on punctuality, obedience, deference. To a young shipboard visitor on his recent trip he growled: "Boy, take off your cap!" Philadelphia newspapers know better than to print anything the Archbishop might take offense at, for a boycott may fall such as once forced the Public Ledger to apologize abjectly for a story...
...incurable optimist, Pushkin was glad it was not Siberia, did not realize he was banished till several years had gone by without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there...