Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful...
Then I went for Pepeliayev. He, too, was dressed and sitting on his iron bed. He broke into convulsive sobs while listening to the death sentence. Having recovered his composure, he expressed surprise, declaring he had made peace with the Soviet regime and addressed a petition to the Central Executive Committee, asking for a reprieve. He begged us not to shoot him until the executive's reply came. I informed him this was impossible, and took him to join Kolchak...
Gilt edged bonds continued dull with a falling tendency, while stocks continued their rise, although more moderately than in recent weeks. The industrial situation continued to improve. Slightly firmer commodity prices were permitting inventories to be marked at satisfactory figures, while production in iron and steel, as well as in other basic industries, continued to advance...
Spanish moss, which grows in long gray festoons on Southern trees, has no roots and subsists entirely on what it gets from the air. Yet its ashes contain large amounts of sodium, iron, silicon, sulphur, chlorine. Whence these elements? Chlorine, sodium, sulphur may be carried high in the air by ocean spray, and come down in rain. The presence of the iron and silicon is a puzzle.-Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, Dr. Ruth Buchanan, U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...know what you're missing; Take the fad up right away! Why daddy missed an iron by an inch...