Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris. Emerging from the secret session at which the $28,000,000,000 bill was presented, Dr. Schacht merely roared at correspondents: "Neither the figures nor the conditions are acceptable to Germany! We would rather-far rather-remain under the Dawes Plan!" Later Germany's testy '"Iron Man" said that the allied proposals had struck him with "surprise and shock." Whereas the annual reparations payments under the Dawes Plan are $395,999,999, and whereas Dr. Schacht has been contending that Germany can pay no more than $332,000,000 yearly, the $28,000,000,000 bill works...
...euphony of current advertisements, water pipe manufacturers have been trumpeting, bugling, tooting and piping the merits of various pipe materials. Brassmen have clarioned that brass pipes last a lifetime, do not rust. Ironmen have said the same for iron-pipes...
Meanwhile steel-pipe makers have been whistling through their fingers. Steel is iron mixed with and hardened by carbon. Because it is easier to produce steel than to rid iron of its impurities, steel is cheaper than pure iron. It is also cheaper than-iron or steel alloys, and than copper alloys. But it oxidizes (rusts) many times faster than do those other materials...
...small iron bench in the Pincian Hill gardens slept a holy man. His breviary had fallen from his lap to the grassy turf. Children gravely gathered beside him, for it seemed to them there could be no mistaking the man's grey hair, his glasses, his still, regular features. "Is it he?" whispered one to another...
...Iron Mask-One for all and all for Douglas Fairbanks...