Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nikola Pashitch, "octogenarian monocrat," became so obsessed with his power to rule the Balkans with an iron hand that his views, somewhat arbitrarily enunciated, were reported to have angered King Alexander, a determined and able ruler. Result: Pashitch, who was then Premier, resigned, having first advised a general election (TIME, July...
France wants an alliance, a real "blood and iron" alliance. No mere protestation of affection will satisfy her. Some new composition of international forces must inevitably take place in Europe. But crystallization has been delayed by general chaos and instability. Now, however, that the economic debris is being cleared away, France makes the first move. For she is determined to be the center of the new alignment of forces, whatever they...
...Hohenzollern dynasty never desired world hegemony. Its scions did not even aspire to be masters of Europe in the approved Napoleonic fashion imitated by Poincare. Two Princes of the house of Hohenzollern, Frederick the Iron and the Great Elector, refused the throne of Poland, stating: "We are German Princes. It is difficult enough to rule the Germans!" (Here the ex-Kaiser sadly smiled.) 'We have no desire to rule the earth...
...last Harvard undergraduates have had their face slapped with the iron glove of indifference. The showing at the Union for the Princeton rally was not only a disgrace to the team, which has been out on that field sweating and working to help Harvard harvest the honor and victory which is due to her, but was a disgrace to every individual who was not there...
After the elm is planted, it will be surrounded by an iron picket fence as a means of protection...