Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feeling that no operation is minor to one who has been as sick as King George a great crowd gathered last week before the wrought iron gates of Buckingham Palace on Operating Day. The worried crowd waited while automobiles drove up bearing physicians, surgeons, a radiologist, anaesthetists. Saluted by sentries were other automobiles containing the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester (just back from Canada, his polo-broken collarbone mended) and Prince George. Three of her sons had come to stay with Queen Mary during the operation...
...York Harbor, opposite where the Hudson and East Rivers meet, lies diminutive Governor's Island, known to military men as Fort Jay. Ceded to the U. S. in 1800, it was once a prime factor in Manhattan's defense. Iron cannon balls fired from it could repulse enemy ships riding up the harbor under full sail. Time brought changes in defense methods, supplied mines, air corps, long-range coast artillery out at Sandy Hook, left Fort Jay a quaint military relic with restful officers' homes, trim lawns, untrafficked roads, under the towered shadow of lower Manhattan...
...United Light & Power purchasers. Cyrus Eaton is called "rich as Mellon" by Clevelanders. Whenever anything really big seems to be stirring in Northern Ohio, rumors mention his name. Last week's Eaton utility rumor stirred up another, older rumor-merger of Inland Steel Co. (Chicago) and Republic Iron & Steel Co. (Youngstown), both strongly held by Cyrus Eaton...
Along the right of way of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R. grows many a carefully-tended flower bed. The crossing watchmen must keep their little shacks trim and orderly, the engineers must carry repair kits and act as veterinaries for minor ailments of their Iron Horses. But all D. T. & I. employes are happy to do extra chores for they are paid above the standard railway scale...
...Looking paunchy, with glints of grey in his hair, Jones wore a white sweater, grey knickers, grey socks, black & white shoes. . . . His huge bag is made of leather. Attached to it was a blue plaid umbrella. The bag contained three woods (driver, spoon, brassie) and nine rusty irons. A tenth iron, shiny and new, was the mashie-niblick with which he pitched his 293rd stroke...