Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron Mask (United Artists-Edward Small) is a sword-rattling, Dumascene version of one of the wildest stabs ever made at history by that extravagant Romancer Alexander Dumas. Its hypothesis: that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...
...when Louis learns Philippe's real identity, he claps him into the Bastille, cruelly crowns him with an iron mask. According to the picture, d'Artagnan's musketeers soon had him out again, gave Louis the mask and Philippe his name, girl and crown. The picture shows Philippe as something of a New Dealer, eager to abolish the salt tax and dress up the peasantry. But judging from the history of Louis XIV's reactionary reign (1643-1715), France never felt the difference, must have switched bottles without changing its Bourbon...
Steve Stanko wanted to be an interior decorator but his father, a Hungarian immigrant, put him to work in an iron foundry close by their home in Perth Amboy, N. J. There two years ago Physical Culturist Bob Hoffman noticed brawny young Stanko, offered him a job in his barbell foundry at York, Pa., promised to make him the strongest man in the world...
...bell-an iron rod seven feet long with removable iron discs on each end (so that weights can be increased or decreased)-is the yardstick of a strongman's brawn...
...Henie won the world's championship ten times running, an unequaled record. She also won the seven European championships she entered, and she won the last three Olympic Games of her amateur era. She became a national idol such as Norway had not worshipped since Ibsen. Above the iron bedstead in her chamber in her small Oslo apartment hung autographed pictures of Hitler and Mussolini. England's Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing her before every public appearance. Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm called...