Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolt. He therefore attempted to dissuade the conspiring generals?Gomez and Serrano?hoping, no doubt, that the affair would blow over, but ready to seize upon any overt treason with a severity that has, as events have turned out, gained him the sobriquet of Mexico's man of iron...
...week before, a busy little Bucknell team had trounced Penn State; Penn had melted the famed "Iron Men"* from brown. There could be little doubt of a victory for Penn, which was odd because Hake, Monk, Olexy, the Brothers Scull, Wascolonis, etc. of Penn were worthless before Delph, Pannaccion, Roepke, Hamas, etc. of Penn State. Score...
Heating Appliances. Copper wire carries electric energy with very little wastage. A wire made of chromium-nickel or similar alloys, on the other hand, resists the passage of electricity and gets hot. Upon this fact were created the many heating devices displayed at the show: Flat Irons Hot Pads Manglers Toasters Grills Percolators Stoves Waffle Iron- Heaters Curling Irons Radiators Sterilizers and a new device for pressing trousers...
Last week in Termini Imerese, Sicily, a strange legal case began ?the trial of the 153 members of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. It was strange because the prisoners were brought into court in iron-barred cages and arranged around the room like wild animals, guarded by a small army of colorfully uniformed Carabinieri with fixed bayonets...
...iron-barred cages she sat, shorn of her power, glowering at the court officials, scowling at the Carabinieri?an old woman, with wrinkled skin, ferocious mien, coarse features. None doubted that a death, too long delayed, according to the Sicilians, would be her fate...