Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloom in the textile area, where mill owners said that under the new schedules they will have no advantage in competing with Canadian mills. Bitterly textile men recalled that the Mother Country's Chief Delegate at Ottawa was Stanley Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd., famed British steel & iron works. In return for Canada's "favors" (such as they are) Great Britain will take an historic step, abandoning her sacrosanct principle of a "Free British Meal Table" (no tariffs or insignificant tariffs on foods). Under the Ottawa agreements the London Parliament is to bind itself for five years...
...misty, rain-driven darkness settled over Soldiers Field last night, eleven CRIMSON iron men wound up their last grueling practice session. This afternoon at 4 o'clock in some far corner of Soldiers Field, the CRIMSON will gird up its ink-stained Joins and go forth to do battle with the red-skinned, scalp-mad fury of the Daily Dartmouth...
...artistic taste was that of a bright 15-year-old boy. He loved to play soldier. Besides his valuable armor, Elmhurst was littered with Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking all his mistresses for a ride. There was also a barroom nude...
...defeat in last month's national finals, felt better last week. Winning the Berthyllyn Cup at Huntington Valley (Philadelphia) from Edith Quier, she dropped two strokes at the second hole and then, after two pars, made a hole-in-one, her first. Her 144-yd. No. 3 iron shot landed seven feet from the cup, bounced twice, plopped straight in. The match ended on the 12th green, 8 & 6 but Mrs. Vare played out the bye holes because her first nine score was 33. At the short 17th she dropped two strokes again but finished with...
...Iron men and wooden ships-the cat-o'-nine-taiis-South Sea paradise-mutiny- shipwreck-open boats-a trial for piracy, with perjury and missing witnesses-unjust sentence-happy ending-these are the time-honored ingredients of Authors Nordhoff & Hall's surefire seafaring tale...