Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the debt discussion was in progress Mrs. Coolidge watered the flowers about the house with an ordinary galvanized iron bucket. Later, while the President drove down and dined at Echo Lake with the senator and the secretary, she stayed at home, supped with Colonel John...
Bright and early next morning the French Foreign Minister, obedient to the wishes of King George, paid a visit to Buckingham Palace. For 40 minutes he conversed with the British Sovereign and when, at the end of that time, he emerged between the high iron gates of the Palace, his chin and cheeks cleanly shaved, a wide smile lit his sallow countenance. From then on, everybody took it as a matter of course that his visit was bound to be successful...
...Newport in his native Wales, James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, visited an iron foundry, grabbed a pair of tongs, "performed expertly a small job." The men, informed that Mr. Davis had been an ironworker before he became Secretary of Labor, cheered lustily...
...party of Jerusalem, led by the so-called "iron man," Menahem Ussishkin, a former colleague of Weizmann...
...some $4,000,000 a large interest in the Deutsche Luxemburgische Gesellschaft, one of the largest industrial concerns which the late Herr Hugo Stinnes founded and one which, with the Gelsenkirchen, Bochumerverein and Siemens concerns-the so-called Rhine-Elbe Union-controls the output of German coal, coke, iron, steel...