Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frontier town of Rumania, where so many Bessarabians mobbed the theatre that firemen were called to play the hose on them; in Riga, where 20,000 people met Jaroff at the station, carried him and his automobile to the hotel; in Berlin, where a German general gave him the Iron Cross he had won fighting against the Russians; in Paris, where Conductor Jaroff kicked sharply at an old lady who edged close and nudged him while he was conducting. (She proved to be his favorite grandmother whom he had not seen for ten years. Grandson Jaroff explained: "No one exists...
...Price. Last fortnight, Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Corp. sold certain power properties to Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., subsidiary of National Power & Light Co. for an undisclosed sum (TIME, Nov. 3). Last week it was reported that the price was $281,085 in cash, plus 115,000 shares of National Power & Light Common. At current prices this stock represents nearly §4,000,000; if National Power & Light should regain its 1930 high the 115,000 shares would be worth some...
...have founded an open-air theatre. I have organized schools and workshops to renew the Italian traditions of the minor arts. I beat on iron, I blow glass, I engrave hard stones, I print with my wood blocks, I color stuffs, I carve bone and boxwood, I interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead...
After the ceremony Sofia erupted with Bulgar abandon. Public buildings were strung with electric bulbs. Men, women, children clambered like monkeys up the high iron grille of the palace gate, danced in the streets till dawn. Police did not allow the playing of the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," but revelers sang themselves hoarse with "0 Sole Mio" in Bulgarian. At the palace it was announced, next day, that Their Majesties had slipped out a back door and danced unrecognized in the streets with their subjects...
...Russian lady who saves her husband from a firing squad by making herself attractive to the General who has ordered his court-martial, only to find that she has fallen in love with the General. The General, acted as well as possible by Walter Huston, is known as "Iron Face." These are the sins of The Virtuous Sin; its single virtue is that it provides the first important vehicle for the alluring and competent Kay Francis. Best shot: interior of a house of ill-fame patronized by high tsarist military officials...