Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Analysis of the voting showed that the 127 oppositional votes; came almost exclusively from the Communists and Ludendorffists. Among the 42 Monarchists who supported the bill were Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and Prince Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor...
Excitement was high. The Conservatives, with iron resolution, adopted the slogan "Menocal or Death"-but failed to specify who was to die. Presumably it was their enemies, since they were reported to have arranged to keep all delegates within range of "sawed-off shotguns" in case any of the latter should try to suspend the Convention...
...favorite cigars, he is seized with a pain. And such a pain. It is a stabbing through the chest as by a sword-thrust. It runs down his left arm and at the same time there is a tightness round the chest walls like the constriction of an iron band. He would scream if he could, but he cannot. Will he live to draw another full breath? Cold sweat is on his forehead; every muscle of his body tense; his face pallid; his pulse racing at an incredible speed. That is angina pectoris...
Industry and trade are in the doldrums, which is partly due to seasonal causes, and partly to more serious factors. Steel and iron, motors and textiles seem distinctly stale. The oil industry seems unable to halt overproduction. Landlords are beginning to wonder whether enough tenants are going to "come back from the shore" this Fall to occupy all the available shops, houses and apartments. Merchants are keeping their stocks down and their hopes up. Enthusiasm, curiously enough, seems confined to agriculture and finance. For once, the wheat farmers and Wall Street are on the same side of the fence...
...inch. Each shield weighs 400 tons. The one from New Jersey has taken a snake-like course through mud, the one from Manhattan has had to eat through stone. They move in shoves of 2 1/2 ft.; and after each shove, "sand hogs" probe for obstructions with long iron bars. Manhattan skyscrapers are used as observation points on which the lines of progress are sighted. Completion of the tunnel is predicted for October...