Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Various combinations were used in this afternoon's drill with five substitutes taking the place of the "iron men" at different times. Miller and prommchee worked at the tackle poets for a time, and Harry cornswee brother of the university star, was used at guard Edes worked with the regulars, taking regulars taking Mishel's place, while Frank Easchberd was at quarterback instead of Randell...
...within him that makes the man supreme in the world and allows him to control materialistic things. . . . Consider the average 150-pound body of a man from its chemical aspect. It contains lime enough to whitewash a fair-sized [sic] chicken-coop, sugar enough to fill a small shaker, iron to make a tenpenny nail, plus water. The total value of these ingredients is 98 cents...
Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, lawyer, author of articles on cruelty to children, and owner of a private library of 30,000 volumes, grandson of U. S. Vice-President (1812-14) Elbridge Gerry: "A fallow deer jumped over a 10-foot iron paling in front of my Fifth Avenue house and stood, with vain eyes and excited flanks, before my door. Captured by Policemen and idlers, it was removed to the Central Park Zoo, which reported that it was not one of theirs...
...entrained from Manhattan for Chicago. This was John R. Mott, 61, General Secretary of the International Y. M. C. A., man with genius for organizing religion, man to be heard with attention. He was bound for a national conference of the organization which under his velvet-gloved hand of iron has carried Protestant Christ to all heathen corners of the globe, has consolidated faith where it already existed, 52 nations in all. He does not look his age, though he should after 38 years of the most strenuous exertion of the will...
...cents worth of water, iron, lime, sulphur, sugar...