Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early days of Wilhelm's reign. Some of his maxims are given: " Direct parliamentary government is to be avoided at any price, even at the price of a dictatorship." " German unity will not be achieved by speeches nor by decisions of the majority, but by blood and iron." " Where it is a question of Prussia's power, I recognize...
People who gloat over a " justice which treads with leaden feet and strikes with an iron hand...
...many doctors read Printers' Ink? How many brokers ever peruse The Casket? How many barbers devote their spare time to India Rubber Review? Or actors to The Iron...
Some lonely sword-swallower will be happy when he sees that advertisement ! " Wanted," again, " lady who has had experience in Iron...
...addition to two quotations from poems, the opinion closes with such moral observations as: " Though justice sometimes treads with leaden feet, if need be she strikes with an iron hand. Verily, the wages of sin are death and sin pays its wages"; as well as such grim humor as: " There is no error appearing in the record, except the great error of the defendant in murdering his wife...