Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the advertisement: "What can he say? He knows that the only cure is to replace the old iron or steel water pipes with brass pipes that can't rust...
...soporific technicalities that occasionally snorted into colorful blasphemy, the whiskered "stool pigeon of King George" tilted far back in his swivel chair, read the Chicago Tribune comic strip about Andrew Gump, Minerva Gump, etc., etc. Above the edge of the newspaper, courtroom idlers could see Mr. McAndrew's iron grey hair. Occasionally he put the newspaper down and chuckled. Then the idlers noted his white whiskers well tinged with red, his high color, his eyebrows that laid a direct black line across his forehead...
...that the brick wall against which General Quijana died was already pockmarked with the bullets of many revolutions. The tale of Mexico, especially during the last twenty years, has been one full of sound and fury. With Calles as its chief narrator the plot is thickened with blood and iron. When he announces: "I will put down the revolution," as he did this week, Calles is fighting not only for the survival of his experiment in government, but also for his life. The end of a Mexican presidential career and of the life of a Mexican president have...
...potential wealth of the Far East, the national resources are limited. Iron deposits, once commonly thought to be large, have shrunk to small proportions upon examination, and are generally distant from the coal beds...
...pajamas during the second act. Everybody knows what that means. The treaty is signed. Yards of gold braid will probably fool the police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder," he stoically awaits...