Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron Duke's Singular Father Sirs...
...vigor apparent in your portrait of him, may guess that he comes of a family notable solely for its blustering militance. Such a guess would be incorrect. Garret Wellesley, Earl of Mornington and father of the first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively few Americans, save such insatiable antiquaries as myself, that the Earl of Mornington was addicted to playing violin sonatas while seated in an armchair upholstered with orchid-colored velvet, composed numerous four-voiced glees, two of which were named respectively "Gently Hear Me, Charming...
...boost to Chinese morale was the energetically spread rumor that Germany's crack Drillmaster General Hans von Seeckt ("the man with the iron mask and the monocle") was coming to train Chinese armies. The old Junker who organized the Reichswehr. happened to be on a world tour of the Far Kast last week. Before he left Berlin he had left blanket denials that he was going anywhere to drill anybody...
...humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through flattened out like sheet iron, go leaping on, smack into a fence which jolts them back into three dimensions. Nothing in a Disney cinema is ever entirely dead, nothing ever dies, nothing is impossible...
...Most indexes are adjusted to season variations. Typical is power production which must be adjusted to iron out the rise in winter (when days are short), the decline in summer. Annual peak is usually a cloudy day in the week of Dec. 22. shortest day of the year. Bottom is not around June 21, longest day. but always July 4. most observed U. S. holiday...