Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried: "My God, my wife has been murdered." Rushing in, the agent and client found the nude, dead body of Allene Thorpe Lam son sprawled over the rim of a blood-splattered bathtub. The back of her head was bashed in. In the burning rubbish outside was a discolored iron pipe. Police put two & two together, charged David Albert Lamson with murder in the first degree (TIME, Sept...
Since the hoped-for reduction in the number of members seemed a stronger purgative than the Constitutional Committee was willing to take, some iron-clad provision should be made to drop those members who enter the Council as they would a club. Under the new constitution a member who misses three successive meetings "may" be removed by a two-thirds vote. This provision should be made mandatory in all except the most extraordinary cases. In the past the Council has been most prodigal in overlooking the shortcomings of its members, and unless expulsion for non-attendance is made more binding...
...before yesterday, if you please, there in this manger, there in this place, a baby girl was born. I took three witnesses with me, and at the same time we saw four other little babies looking out of iron bars begging Almighty God somehow to get them into the sunlight. They were pallid and rat-eaten, so to speak, and a further description of the synthetic maternity ward was beyond human description...
...disease was usually treated with pills containing iron, of which there was a deficiency in the red blood cells of chlorotic girls. Their blood clotted with difficulty. Hard-working country girls were afflicted less than idle city girls. Peculiarly, in Russia city girls were immune...
...Fowler lists many guesses concerning the cause of chlorosis: menstrual difficulties, unrequited love, sudden fright, fallen stomachs, tight corsets, constipation, poor ventilation, overwork. Says he : "Probably the most logical view was . . . a long-continued iron deficiency in the diet." Despite those guesses "the reasons for the disappearance of chlorosis remain in darkness, and with its disappearance the explanation of its etiology becomes increasingly difficult...