Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stanislansky, playing the part of the brother in "The Cherry Orchard", worried long over the proper intonation for this passage, a drop from tragic heights to--anchovies. He was satisfied only when he recalled an incident from his iron-worker days in Moscow. He remembered hearing a father whose eldest son had just died describe to him the proper way to cook...
...aviator failed miserably in giving the prosaic world a message from the skies, he opened a wonderful new field for advertising. The success of his parachute, a home-made product, advertised the parachute. The flaming tights did the rest; for they drew such a crowd that shop windows and iron railings along the street were broken. To this throng the aviator advertised by word of mouth a department store, an eye doctor, whose card he wore on his chest, and himself, whose card he passed around, as Lieut. Hubert Julian, M.D., the M.D. being translated by the lieutenant to mean...
Fortunately before the calm of peace has cooled the iron, another important step in this direction has been taken, in this case by law. In The Hague, the center of neutrality, an academy for the study of international law is to be founded. To it every country may send qualified students, including diplomatic representatives, to hear world-famous jurists and "search together the sea of international law." The academy does not purpose to nourish its members on long lists of past cases and decisions. Neither is its purpose to hand down decisions on future disputes, as the ancient University...
...this reserve goes back to the land. In America, which until about 20 years ago was a pioneer and not a settled country, the labor for expanding industries was drawn from; Europe. Statistics show that the rate of influx of immigrants and the rate of production, say of pig iron, go up and down together. But labor imported from the European peasantry to aid an American business boom cannot go back to Europe when the boom is over. It has to stay, be assimilated and Americanized. This was possible as long as there was free land to take...
...Colonel Robert Thompson memorial trophy, which the winning college at the intercollegiate championship holds and which is a bronze replica of the "Little Iron Man," will be exhibited beginning today in Leavitt and Peirce's window. At the meeting of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association after the tournament, Captain-elect Lane was chosen vice-president of that body for the 1923-24 season, and J. K. Watson '23, who was manager of this year's team, was appointed a member of the graduate committee to arrange for the next intercollegiate meeting...