Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fired the first shot when the poison begins to act. Chegodieff, anxious to hurry matters along, tries to push Rasputin into the fire. When this fails, he wrestles with him, whacks him across the nose with a poker. Rasputin writhes on the floor. Chegodieff then seizes an immense fire iron resembling a crowbar and mashes Rasputin as though he were a potato. He is just congratulating himself on having despatched his antagonist when Rasputin stands up. His face is an indescribable pulp, spattered with blood and sticky morsels which appear to be brains; nonetheless, he manages to give a Barrymore...
...Hudson palisades some 20 mi. from Manhattan. In the course of a wedding celebrated there last year by her landlady's son. Miss Cornell and "Flush," the water spaniel who was in The Barretts, were pitched into the river when the dock collapsed. She has a grip of iron, plays a fair game of tennis, a much better game of golf. Ernest Jones, professional at the Women's National Golf Club, who trained Glenna Collett, worries about her because she will not give up the stage, says that in six months he could have her in tournament form. "She doesn...
Premier Thorvald Stauning, a strapping Social Democrat with a beard as big as Santa Claus's has been asking and fighting for iron control of Danish imports by the State. Last week both houses of the Danish Parliament gave Premier Stauning what he wanted as an early Christmas present...
Officers shouldered their way through the crowd explaining what had happened: on the inlet tube for cooling the turbogenerators with sea water, a 40-lb. mushroom-shaped valve, made of cast iron instead of brass, had jammed, finally burst. A solid jet of water nearly a foot in diameter poured into the hold. The ship was made to list purposely to keep the broken valve near the surface. Over & over the officers repeated there was no danger...
...hundred-times-neatly-in-ink" policy have felt that such treatment would undermine rather than develop the resourcefulness and independence upon which hangs youth's virility and chances for success at college. And had the Exeter faculty failed to recognize such a possibility and to counteract it by an iron hand beneath the velveteen, the shell-backed pessimism would have been amply substantiated...