Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your historical ads make as good reading as your indispensable magazine. Recently I enjoyed the one entitled "The Merkle Incident." It was astonishingly complete and very well written, but surely it was mistaken in one important particular. You say, " 'Iron Man' McGinnity, coming on the run, seized the ball and hurled it into the stands. Tinker pinned his arms and the ball lobbed into the crowd already surging on the field...
Some 500 Democratic politicians of Manhattan last week packed into their new Tammany Hall on Union Square. For 90 minutes they milled anxiously through the reception room, the ballrooms, chewing cigars, shaking heads, muttering. Suddenly a door opened at the head of a narrow iron stairway. A man appeared and yelled out: "Curry!" Loud and long did the Tammany leaders cheer. There were free drinks that night in many a downtown speakeasy...
...committee is not already dead," croaked a Japanese delegate, "it is certainly dying with despatch." Most observers concurred, but not indomitable Owen D. Young, chairman of the committee and co-representative of the U. S. with Mr. Morgan, who conferred as often as thrice a day with the "Iron Man" whom most people blame for disrupting the committee, Germany's hard, ungracious Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
White-hot rage against the "Iron Man" flamed up in the French press last week, when Dr. Schacht as president of the German Reichsbank raised its discount rate from 6½% to 7½%. The inference drawn excitedly in Paris was that the Reichsbank w?s trying to give the impression that German finances are already overstrained and cannot bear even the present reparations burden...
...raise the rate last week, and in Manhattan it had been anticipated for some weeks that Dr. Schacht would, nay must, take this step.* In Paris, however, angry editors rose above common sense, charged that the lowering of the rate last January was a "plot," even charged that the "Iron Man" would rather see the mark crash down to infinitesimal value a second time?thus bankrupting the Fatherland?than agree to pay the Allies what Germany owes...