Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That talkative, bald-headed seaman," wily Ulysses, is supposed to have done battle in Sicily with Polyphemus, member of the gigantic tribe of Cyclopes, who had but one eye, in the centre of their foreheads, and were believed by the Greeks to forge iron for Vulcan. The historical originals of this tribe were probably Pelasgians, who worked in underground quarries, wearing lanterns or flares on their beads...
...shares with the President (it is assessed at $700), seemed more concerned with the chores than the first officer of the realm. Once or twice he puckered his nose when he noticed Mr. Coolidge stoop to pick up something, then walk to a large pile of junk, old iron, odds and ends, between the house and the barn. It developed that the President had salvaged some rusty wire nails...
...last week all illusions were shattered when President Coolidge informed the press that wooden bridges had covers merely to protect the lower timbers from the elements which would rot them. Such bridges will frequently outlast a succession of iron bridges. The President told of a wooden covered span near Springfield, Mass., which has been standing more than a century...
...have read his daily stint, most of which has been criticism of art, music, books. The more literate magazines have welcomed his contributions in verse and prose. Last year he published Godhead, a powerful story of a "superman" whose original he discovered while covering a strike on the Gogebic iron range, northern Michigan. The contrasting humor and whimsy of his new novel is as astonishing as it is joyous...
...applause of the patrons of Christie was quite in the best tradition. It has always been the habit of the fashionable world to applaud the picture of the late Mr. Romney. That the works of his immortal betters went for prices that are commonly paid for art calendars, iron lawn-dogs, and imitation ikons was merely one more illustration of the fact that time will tell-lies. "Now," said a critic, commenting, in 1802, upon the death of Artist Romney, "he belongs to the ages." That statement is applied to all popular painters at death, but in the case...