Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parts. Railroad earnings are increasing, and even those roads that are in straitened circumstances are placing large orders. There seems to be every probability that the makers of railroad equipment and supplies will continue to be active during 1923. This insures a very considerable bulk of business for the iron and steel Industries, for the railroads are their best customers...
...Among those that will probably advance are the following: Interest rates, wages, railroad car loadings, automobile output, money in circulation, cost of living, unfilled orders of the Steel Corporation, bank loans; iron and steel production, traffic on the Great Lakes, rediscounts with the Federal Reserve Banks...
...part of the Cardinal was not clearly and strongly played even by Mr. Mantell himself. Richelieu in the play is an iron-willed man, a master of the subtleties of court intrigue, a commanding figure in age and genius. He is an old man, to be sure, but a supremely dominating and dignified prince of the church. The dignity and dominance which Mr. Mantell often created were dispelled by a straining for laughs and comic effects, obtained by broad and undignified comic by-play, almost as soon as they were gained. "That inherent majesty of soul, that simplicity of demeanour...
...says Cyril, stands for dimes or dollars--preferably the latter.); and no one is expected to "say it with flowers". Paper money, too, is better; recall the case of the Senior last year who unexpectedly received the donation of a half dollar in the eye, with disastrous results. Iron kronen are absolutely barred...
...from work--at three miles an hour. The lucky fellow who got near this new transit line--the moving street--could travel six or eight miles an hour. Of course, as many as could, moved near the routes. They were attracted, just as a magnet attracts. Just as the iron filings flow to the magnetic lines, so the people swarmed along the new line of travel--along the first horse-car line. What was the result? Congestion of course: Rush hour congestion; then housing congestion; Why say more? What happened next? Why other lines were constructed of course. Did their...