Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record of Senator Alben William ("Iron Man") Barkley of Kentucky is as follows...
...large, heavyset, clean-shaven, with big hands and feet, a thick neck. His nickname ("Iron Man") derives from his physique and stamina on the stump. In the Senate he shuns frock-coats, fancies business suits of a reddish-brown worsted. In debate he is a ready speaker with a strong clear voice. When he rises at his desk, he throws out his chest and stiffens his shoulders like a fighter going into action. His formal speeches, meaty with facts, are carefully prepared in advance. His mind and tongue both move slowly. Personally pleasant, he has a serious temperament that bars...
...fishing village which the Vagabond remembers, the streets are cobble-stoned, and the old houses have iron gates. A wind comes up from Spain, and shakes the elm trees on Main Street until the cobbles are buried in leaves. They are falling now, for Autumn comes early there, and blowing, red and gold, over the cobbles. The people who come every year with paint and canvas have packed up and gone. And one by one, every day, the ships come in from the fisheries: ships whose hulls have been painted by the wind and the sea for a whole summer...
...often mortally hate & fear. Well may it be that the bitter Rumpelstilzchens of folklore date back to a long-lost pygmy race or to rude Neolithic men routed by the tale-telling ancestors of the Brothers Grimm. One striking point to Canon MacCulloch's thesis: fairies usually dislike iron and such wrought wares, prefer rocks, as would stone age skulkers...
...small round dent in the side of the Walker Cup. It was a reminder of the only match that went to England this year, the one between George Voigt and Leonard Crawley, a Dunfrieshire. schoolmaster better known in England for his cricket than his golf. Crawley's iron on the :8th overshot the green and bounced against the Cup which, with its bright silver handles sticking out like donkey's ears, was standing on the clubhouse lawn...