Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swank, cynical Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the "Iron Chancellor," lives lavishly in London as German Charge d'Affaires with his moneyed and shapely Swedish wife. Princess Ann von Bismarck (Née Tengbom). daughter of a famed Stockholm architect. Last week Prince Bismarck was chosen by Chancellor Hitler to touch off a stick of disarmament dynamite...
...space. The first objection could be met by employing student night-watchmen. The second would be nullified by the strictly educational and athletic use to which this small profit could be put. And the third would be solved by an inexpensive wooden ramp and the removal of one iron post...
...This drilling, trampling foolery in the heart of Europe," said H. G. Wells of Hohenzollern Germany, and twenty years later he finds his echo in the columns of the London Graphic. Great Britain, according to the Graphic and the Referee, wants peace, and to that end will force an iron ultimatum upon the Nazis, but the Graphic somewhat unfortunately goes on to say that Great Britain will build a hundred airships in any case. Daladier rumbles out even stronger threats; Switzerland insists that the German offensive will cross her soil, and only from Doorn and from the perspiring Nazi emissary...
...Martin-de-Ré, out of the Bay of Biscay, bound for the three little "Isles of Safety'' off French Guiana in South America, of which the most famed is Devil's Island. Her entire passenger list of 673 was below, locked in great iron cages. Over their heads was a network of pipes ready to pour out killing live steam in case of mutiny. With their blankets cowled over their heads, the more confident "grey rats" were already plotting escape. Their chances are better now than when Devil's Island first earned its dread name...
Married. Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig, 30, "iron man" first baseman of the New York Yankees, holder of the major league record for consecutive games played (TIME. Aug. 28); and Eleanor Grace Twitchell, 27, University of Wisconsin graduate, daughter of a retired Chicago restaurateur; in New Rochelle...