Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, onetime (1934-36) chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, produced an apt allegory": "Life in an Iron Lung"-Uncle Sam in an artificial respirator, with Drs. Roosevelt, Ickes, Morgenthau and Nurse Democracy experting and little John Taxpayer manning the pump...
...extended to within 50 miles of the Portuguese border. This week, as military observers had long expected, one knife thrust through thinly held Leftist lines did the trick. The balloon burst, leaving the Rightists in possession of several thousand prisoners, 5,000 head of cattle and the strategic copper, iron and lead-mining centre of Castuera...
Since August 1933, John Wiley Hill and Donald Snow Knowlton, heads of a Cleveland publicity firm, have received $323,000 from the American Iron and Steel Institute and individual Little Steel companies. The La Follette committee produced "personal and confidential" documents revealing the efforts of Edgar S. Bowerfind, Hill & Knowlton representative in Birmingham, Ala., to make local newspapers see the rectitude of Republic Steel Corp.'s position on labor problems. The technique, involving no innovations, consisted of visits to local editors and pressure "judiciously exerted" through advertisers...
...winter sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers. Today, the Strauss home and adjoining five acres of formal gardens are surrounded by a five-foot wall topped by an 18-inch barbed wire fence. Only entrance to the grounds is a thick iron door equipped with a large bell-push and a speaking tube. The speaking tube runs through the grounds a good 50 yards to the servants' quarters. At one time the good Dr. Strauss had this speaking tube connected with a phonograph mechanism. When unwanted visitors rang the bell...
...contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...