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Word: ironical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright eyed, tousled girl-child was seen to clamber up an iron lamp post in the Square of Julius Caesar at Milan last week. The King, her king was coming, and she wanted to see. Round about and beneath her surged merry, excited Milanese. They filled the whole square except for a lane guarded by picked, stalwart troops of the Alpine mountaineering service. In a moment His Majesty, beloved King Vittorio Emanuele III, would ride down the human lane and on to open Milan's great, annual Sample Fair. Why didn't the King come? He was already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fatal Lamp Post | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...those who had stood near the lamp post 18 were killed. One was a woman who had stepped to her window nearby a bare instant before the explosion. At her a flying bit of iron lamp post hurtled, inflicting a mortal wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fatal Lamp Post | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Behind the flight of Lady Sophie Heath there was jealousy and good British gold-the gold that comes from coal and iron mines which husbands own. Her new husband, Sir James Heath, is 76. She is pretty and 30 and got for her wedding present from him a turquoise blue plane to match her favorite stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Tale of Two Women | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...Paris, Jadis Rigoulot, called "Samson," lifted with both hands an iron bar weighing 307 Ibs.-a new world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Merge not only productions units. Merge also raw material units, selling units, consumers' units. Merge them sidewise-like with like-horseshoe maker with horseshoe maker. Merge them up and down-coal miner, iron miner, pig iron founder, horseshoe forger, blacksmith, teamster. Merge them round and round-blacksmith, nail maker, harness maker, feedman, stableman, veterinarian, buggy maker, cabby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Sellers | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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