Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, before the American Iron and Steel Institute, British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard made a speech. He began: "It is a great honor. . . . But, like all honors or privileges-if we except the ancient British Order of the Garter, which Disraeli said he particularly admired because there was no damned merit attached to it-it entails some responsibility." Like U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at London, in his recent Pilgrims speech (TIME, May 18), he took for granted all the Anglo-Saxon platitudes, but, "looking about for a substitute, it struck me that, building on these sentiments...
...Demands were made on China by Tapan on Jan. 18, 1915, were allegedly to secure: 1) China's recognition of arrangements made between Japan and Germany relative to German rights in Shantung and Kiaochow. 2) The consolidation of Japanese hegemony in Manchuria. 3) Control of China's iron output. 4) The military superiority of Japan. Subsequent events proved the above fears largely unfounded...
Item: Mr. Joe Blevitch of the class of '66, while returning early Saturday morning from a G. A. R. celebration, came into accidental contact with the iron gate of James Smith Hall. Sergeant O'Malley of the Cambridge Mounted Police, suspecting an attempt to crash the gate, fired three shots at him and left him for dead...
...years after he had received his diploma from Yale, he went to live in St. Louis and, as Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, associated himself with the Missouri Medical College in the early days of that institution. When only 34, he became a judge, speedily earned a sobriquet of honor: "Iron Judge." In his post-judicial days, he put iron into the feeble Republican Party and was at least partly responsible for Missouri's voting for Republican Presidents in '04, '08, '20, '24. He was one of the few Republicans elected to the Senate from Missouri...
...told how he came to fashion the lives of Kentucky mountaineers into Hell-Bent for Heaven, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize Play. The chairman at the next session called the roll of the states and found that one and all were fondly familiar with The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, The Iron Woman and Old Chester Tales, whose author, Mrs. Margaret Deland, then took the platform to declare that fiction is footless unless founded in fact...