Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sleek, dark hair of General Theodore Pangalos, the "Mussolini of Greece," turned white when he was deposed as Dictator and jailed (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week, the iron barred door of General Pangalos' cell opened by command of his great and wily friend, M. Eleutherios Venizelos, who has just maneuvered himself into the Prime Ministry (TIME, June...
...William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, is the biological chef who concocted the food pill. It is about the size of a pigeon's egg, is composed principally of nitrogen, phosphorus, iron salts. The definite recipe is still a secret; each plant requires different proportions of ingredients and many formulas remain still to be worked out. Chef Gericke plans to tell U. S. agricultural colleges and departments about the food pill when he returns from lecturing in England, France, Germany, Italy on his experiments. Plant lovers may soon be able to buy the pills...
...other works are scattered through out the world, in museums, on battlefields, in ocean liners, in parks or outside of great houses. Several are in the Louvre; the architects of the Cheney Bros, building in Manhattan persuaded him to design the great iron doors, window frames, screens, trees for the display of their silks. He designed the tall iron gates at the entrance to the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris three years ago where he received the highest prize. Describing the things he has made by their ordinary names makes it seem that Brandt is no more than...
...work has fallen now into comparative disrepute. Once, when kings wore crowns, a goldsmith was as good as a sculptor, and usually was one. Today, with the vastly increased usefulness of metal, there has been a corresponding decrease in its popularity as an artistic medium. There are few good iron masters in the U. S.; the best known is Hunt Diederich whose works are popular in the homes of millionaires. The technique of iron work is exceedingly complicated: every expert has his own preferences in melting, moulding, dry-casting, wet-casting, as every etcher has his special tricks. Edgar Brandt...
German steel makers, last week, had cause to smile at reports, emanating from the U. S., of a proposed combine to control U. S. iron and steel exports...