Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought Miss Bell to Arabia in the service of the Empire. As a girl and woman, she, the incorrigible daughter of Sir Hugh Bell, "the richest iron master in England," had explored Arabia because, literally, she loved the sometimes childish and sometimes sublime Arabian race. Without Occidental companions, but traveling with a retinue of native servants and dining every evening in a Paris gown, Miss Bell was the first woman to cross the great Arabian Desert, and later tossed off two books* on the Near East, which Field Marshal Allenby confessed to poring over, both before and during his compaigns...
Philadelphia, the Sesquicentennial Exposition City, last week was the recipient of priceless largesses. This time, from the art-crammed Spanish-Citadel cornucopia, flowed some sixty masterpieces of the Spanish Renaissance; Velasquezes; Goyas; Murillos; Fortunys; Goya tapestries; modern paintings (many Sorollas) ; old wrought-iron; ceramics; gossamer Spanish mantillas; delicate rapiers; daggers; rugs; Renaissance furniture...
...took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, he of the huge feet and iron wrist, had undone his hope only by an overbold attempt to gobble a long putt on the last green. The 294 was still best; Turnesa waited...
...driver of Robert Tyre Jones swung down, flicked a blade of grass, a chip of rubber, came to rest over his right shoulder. Three hundred yards down the course the ball stopped rolling. Jones took an iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that...
...Manhattan, John Kuck, of Kansas Teachers' College, picked up an eight-pound ball of iron, whirled it round him on a wire, sent it careering 68 feet ⅝ inches -a new world's record. Untired, he tossed the 16-lb. shot 48 feet 3½ inches for another record...