Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest services a man could render the world today would be the formulation of a recipe for an appetizing dish of bone marrow. Next would come an introduction of alfalfa as an item of our menus. Alfalfa is the richest of all foods in vitamin and iron."-Professor Louis S. Davis, Indiana University...
...beauty of a well-knit body and the fundamental character essential to a good craftsman. . . . His bronzes . . . should appeal to a large audience in Detroit, a city where men of millions know the feel of an engine throttle and the heft of a tool." They saw a barrel-chested iron-forger, naked above his leather apron, poising his sledge for a blow. They saw a strong-armed Nordic guiding an electric drill, and a cool Nordic in overalls _ and gauntlets, riding midair on a girder -perhaps a bone in the steel skeleton of the new Book Building, "world...
...every year some 2000 certificates remain unused. How better could they be applied than to avoid the shortcomings of necessary provisions? The mechanics of immigration regulations is a matter for experts, but the most inexperienced can appreciate an effort to introduce a measure of discretion to problems where an Iron-clad ruling cannot fall, sometimes to be unfair...
...Ormond ("Tuss") McLaughry, Brown football coach, paid tribute at an alumni dinner to eleven other iron men— the Brown football team that played through the season undefeated.* He derided the idea that he fed his protégés on milk. "Music," he said, "is what makes Iron Men. The players depend on rhythm and morale, and unless you have a singer or two on the squad you have a tough time keeping up the morale. Whenever we were in the train on the way to a game I always made them start a song...
Sailors, arm-in-arm, lined the decks and guns of the Renown. Shrill boatswains' whistles piped as the ducal party stepped aboard. Then the standard of the Duke of York broke out at the masthead. Thunderous, a salute roared from the battleships Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow and Emperor of India. Humorously pat, the Renown's band blared: "The Girl I Left Behind...