Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge, apostle of Prosperity, visiting perhaps the greatest single source of Prosperity in the U. S. The low mountains of Itasca and St. Louis counties are, literally, mountains of iron. Near Hibbing, where the earth gives an enormous red yawn, is the Hull-Rust Mine, the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world...
...latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge arrived four curiously wrought pieces of iron with holes punched in them. They were left by one A. H. Kellerman, 70-year-old Wisconsin farmer, who said: "Just give these to the President and ask him if he knows what they are." President Coolidge took one look and said: "They don't fool me. I know...
...bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality, and as proof of its potability offered an iron-clad guarantee: "If you are not satisfied with the champagne you make, your money will be returned to you. "If you are not satisfied, we will send a man to destroy the champagne and he will give you a check. "If you spoil it through your own negligence...
Born. To Alice, six-ton hippopotamus of the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus, a 100 Ib. son. The Menominee (Mich.) boiler works built an iron crib...
...Iron Gustave" Hartmann, cabby, who drove his ancient horse and cab on a "goodwill" jaunt to Paris (TIME,, June 18) returned to Berlin last week, lolling in a taxicab presented to him by Opel Motor Co. Old friends of horsey days, vexed, were restrained by police from mobbing...