Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...papers you are wrong. I have seen him several times, I have shaken hands with him once, and I have heard of a "smart" and kind thing he once did. An old lady could not get the window up in a street car, but John Coolidge borrowed an iron rod from the conductor and pried the window open. I have heard this for a fact...
...Said he: "In a day when hypocritical clergymen are mouthing old theologies, in a day when mammon-worshiping, penny-pinching hypocrites are defending the system that exploits millions and sucks the lifeblood out of the workers around the world, in a day when snobs and aristocrats hold up the iron wall of class and caste, I have dared to stand up and tell the truth concerning these soul-blasting tyrannies...
...Sept. 14, 1925) ; and a Premier may be prostrated but scarcely surprised if his own brother is shot down in the street (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925). . . . Most unfortunately, Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff was not able to find the bomb for which he searched, in time. The black iron sphere became a white cloud of gas which pushed out the walls of the Chief's house and drove iron splinters through him. Mercifully he died an almost instantaneous death...
Constructionist artists have achieved stark realism by the use of silk, wool, glass, cotton and various other commodities in their paintings. One, a woman, put real iron bars before a picture of lions...
When the Age-Herald was founded in 1870, Birmingham consisted of a cotton field crossed by two railroads. The first pages of the Age-Herald- described the first activities of the first promoters and engineers in the coal-and-iron-studded mountains that were to make Birmingham the first industrial city of the South. The Age-Herald gave its encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap...