Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more circuitous route. Born in Providence, R. I., the son of a manufacturer of equipment for submarines, he made his debut as a soprano in the choir of Grace Church. After a grammar & night-school education, he went to work, first as a telephone operator in an iron works factory, later in the art department of the Philadelphia Press, stayed with that paper, the Evening Ledger and Bulletin for five years as reporter and copyreader. Later he took to writing advertising, got fired from N. W. Ayer & Son for paying too much attention to music...
...lobby stood a huge wrought-iron war god. Elsewhere in the galleries were war masks, chieftains' stools, wooden idols, ivory headrests, bowls, swords, fly whisks, amulets, statues and fertility fetishes belonging to Frank Crowninshield, Henri Matisse, A. Conger Goodyear, Helena Rubinstein, Paul Guillaume, Sir Michael Sadler, and 65 other collectors. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was last week opening the largest, most carefully chosen and most important loan exhibition of African Negro sculpture the U. S. has ever seen...
...engaging head of a young girl from French Gabun, with long formalized curls; 2) a witch doctor's Konde figure, dumpy, menacing and studded with nails representing curses against an enemy; 3) a squatting Venus, also from French Gabun. From Dahomey came one of the largest exhibits, the iron war god in the lobby, nearly life-size and wearing a strange spiked hat and a garment like a pleated nightshirt. His raised left arm looked as if he were signaling over his shoulder with his thumb, like any hitchhiker...
Dissatisfied with his rate of promotion in these parts, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 of the Yard Police, has entered himself as a candidate for the Nazi Schutz Staffel and the Iron Cross First Class...
...other two: iron and coal...