Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policeman stared at a heavy padlock thrust through the nostrils of a grilled iron gate. At the sealed placard "CLOSED FOR VIOLATION OF THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION ACT" he gazed with an expression of regret. Shaking his head, he muttered, "They hadn't ought to have done...
Proprietors of what lay back of the grilled iron portals agreed. They summoned a mechanic, ordered him to remove the obstruction so that next week 300 seniors in Princeton University could pass through the Fitz Randolph Gates to receive their diplomas...
Villagers of Manuden, England, gathered on the lawn of the vicarage of the Rev. Harry B. Grin-die, 70, on his wedding night. They beat tin pans, iron kettles, garbage cans, etc. They honked horns. In short, they gave Vicar Grindle an old-fashioned "tin kettling"-to remind him that they thought he had violated an unwritten...
Food. A pancake griddle that bakes 440 pancakes at a time is a feature of the refugee camp at Monroe, La. It is made of welded strips of sheet iron, under which run pipes with natural gas. Thus some 3,000 refugees are speedily supplied with their hot cakes and maple syrup breakfast...
...dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department has found itself faced with a printing bill of millions of dollars yearly. It was costing money to make money...