Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scribner incident was important, for the friendly clerk was Lewis Hatch, who became a great bibliophile and continued to befriend the young window-gazer. After a number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...
Linz on the Danube is large, modern, comparatively prosperous. There are large iron works and ship yards for building river boats. Perched dramatically on a pine-clad rock just outside of Linz is feudal Schloss Waxenberg, subject of Linz's most popular post cards, hereditary fief of proud Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Linz's industrial population is heartily Socialist. Prince Ernst, lord of Schloss Waxenberg, is loudly, violently Royalist. Unlike most Austrian princes he is still rich. Despite the cordial hatred of Linz factory workers, he is treated with the greatest deference and respect...
...Manhattan, one Angelina del Vescovo, six, sat watching her aunt iron. A gust of wind blew a piece of paper in the window against the iron where it ignited, then into the child's lap. She died of burns...
Second with 42 votes, ten less than Mr. Young, came Automan Henry Ford. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, onetime coal, iron, aluminum, whiskey tycoon, was third with...