Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embers of a generation-old Spanish feud kindled again last week. Wicked darting flames of revolution spurted high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph and telephone lines completely silent throughout Spain, voluminous clouds of rumor billowed with the awesome menace of uncertain portent...
...woman may attend, into a freemasonry of bronze-skinned jungle nomads. Dr. McGovern, who though still in his twenties has scoured the globe's face from London to holy Lasa, was in time to authenticate a newspaper report of a Negro who stood barefoot on red-hot iron with apparent comfort. Dr. McGovern suggested that the Negro might have been an unsuspected leper but at the same time told of having joined in personally on a Shinto ceremony in Japan, where he thrice walked across a bed of blazing coals, to the great detriment of his clothes but without...
Some 30 years ago, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt conceived the idea of building himself a $1,000,000 home. He did. Its red brick facade with white stone facing, its handsome wrought iron fence, rise in all their French majesty on the south of Plaza Square, Manhattan, a magnificent pile. "But who," you ask, "would want to make it his private home?" Just so. The shutters...
...second hole when Mitchell bunkered an iron shot. He won the fourth hole when Mitchell hooked a drive. He won the fifth and sixth holes with faultless golf, the tenth with a birdie. After that he was never behind again. Mitchell, quite obviously, was stewing in his own juice. Perspiration poured into his eyes; he had his caddy fetch a towel from the clubhouse, complained that he could not hold his clubs. To remedy the last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might...
...main stem of the Western Pacific runs 927 miles from San Francisco to Salt Lake City.* It was once, financially, a hazardous railroad, an iron hope of the executors of the estate of Jay Gould for making a coast to coast system out of the Gould holdings. In the rocky country past Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific dominated; if the Goulds wanted a new road they would have to build one over the mountains. The plan cost money-so much that the Gould roads collapsed and passed into the control of the Equitable Trust Co. Alvin...