Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA? Sabatini? Brentano ($4.50). Iron men in "an age of steel and velvet" ? the growth, rampage and decline of the Borgian Bull? in the fields of Renaissance Italy? a biography that for color, excitement and human interest ranks with the best of Sabatini's adventurous novels, but a biography which displays throughout a steadfast adherence to historical fact. Sabatini does not attempt to whitewash the terrific Cesare, but he does explode a number of usual errors concerning and flimsy accusations against him. Life in the Borgia home was not, as is commonly supposed, just...
Hamlin Garland, broad-shouldered, powerful, with his mass of iron-gray hair, is one of the gayest and yet most dignified of our older men of letters. He has the faculty of understanding and being interested in the moderns, mixed with a splendid detachment that is unusual. His two autobiographical volumes form, I suppose, one of the classics of our age. His novels, sketches and stories are filled with rugged beauty and the spirit of adventure...
...unfilled orders of the U. S. Steel Co. have long been considered by economists as a reliable index to the trend of business, for reason that iron and steel are the most fundamental raw materials and that the U. S. Steel Co. is the largest unit in the industry...
...downward swing of prices on the Stock Exchange, in addition to the decreased production of pig iron and the unfilled orders...
...From the first moment Stinnes appeared in Upper Silesia I used all available measures to restrict him. He secured large blocks of shares in the Kattawitz Metallurgical Trust, which possessed mines and iron factories, and an interest in the Bismarck mines, and one of the finest steel fabricating plants in Europe...