Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deputy Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor, crashed to earth in an airplane at Bamberg while on his way from Berlin to Niirnberg to attend an aviation meet. The Prince, an experienced War pilot, was not seriously injured; the machine...
...Make possible the use of steel and iron for many ornamental and artistic purposes...
...according to reports from Pittsburgh, a cheap process of making stainless iron and steel is being tried out in a number of large mills there. The inventor is Ronald Wild, of England. He, his brother A. H. Wild, founder of a large steel concern in Sheffield, and George Pugiley, another Sheffield man, expert in the open-hearth and electric steel processes, are demonstrating the manner of production...
...only brings forth admiration from friends and enemies. The French call him sympathigue, which says much for his character. In appearance he resembles a jovial and prosperous farmer; his features are hardly handsome, for, like his Premier, he is inclined to corpulency and is below medium height. But his iron-grey hair, his penetrating eyes and his smiling countenance go far to give him I'air distingué. Of him his intimates say: "He is the President of the French Republic, but he is also the most simple and modest of its citizens...
...annoy occasionally with involved sentences or word tricks than it is not to make any pretence at fine writing at all, which is the case with a multitude of his fellow novelists. There are no finer stories in American annals than those in the collection Gold and Iron. There are few better novels than The Three Black Pennies. Those who consider some of Hergesheimer's characters passionless must seek his emotion in words. He often characterizes a screen as lovingly as a woman. Nothing is so inanimate as to be stone to this high priest of the senses...