Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daily Telegraph: "Exceptional strength and iron will power-in short, a man who, finding a door that seemed to stick, might be expected to wrench it open. . . . lurching plane. . . . accidental plunge...
...late Rodman Wanamaker, who did much to further friendship between the U. S. and France. Men will do much to beautify that which they find most terrible ; thus the urn which is to contribute its comfort to Rodman Wanamaker's grave was fashioned by the fore most iron worker in the world and a great artist: Edgar Brandt...
Workers in iron deal with a difficult medium and one which it is impossible to handle with two hands and a simple tool. Brandt, after he became successful in Paris before the War, had a large factory in which he made his graceful gates, balconies, doors and figured fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker...
barons of iron and steel...
...Republic Iron and Steel Co. and Trumbull Steel...