Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other son (by an earlier marriage) died, partly through his neglect. He went back to Judea, visited the desolate site of what had once been Jerusalem, saw how vexed the land was by its Roman conquerors, by a dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors of the Law. Sadly he returned to Rome again, determined to be neither hidebound Roman nor hidebound Jew but a citizen of the world. He got back in time to see his emperor Titus die, to be evicted from his house by the new Emperor Domitian...
...dead silence of a massed throng which pack-jammed the enormous square and all side streets. Queen Elena opened her velvet handbag, extracted with visible emotion her gold wedding ring and the King's, dropped them into a large bronze urn. An Archbishop advanced and blessed two iron rings lying on a red velvet cushion while Her Majesty knelt with lips moving in silent prayer...
...trim blue suit and white collar the widow of General Turba, one of Italy's World War heroes, next presented the velvet cushion and Queen Elena, taking the two iron rings, dropped them into her handbag. Then in a low voice she broadcast: "These rings, symbols of our first joys, symbols of our extreme renunciation now, make the purest offering to our country. With them we invoke before God victory for the young sons of Italy who defend rights which are sacred. We pray for the triumph of Roman civilization in Africa...
...population of approximately 1,000,000, had given some 250,000 gold rings, the day's total for all Italy being computed later as worth $80,000,000. Among the wives was the Dictator's. Millions of Italian women, unlike their Queen, reacted first to their new iron rings by at once trying them on. Since the warm Latin temperament packs super-sentiment into one's own particular wedding ring. Italians who could afford it pack-jammed every jewelry shop in the Kingdom to buy new gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into...
...pain to serious liberals than Juan Vincente Gomez. A thoroughgoing reprobate, he became Dictator of Venezuela 27 years ago when Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler had scarcely a political thought in their heads. Though for appearances sake he sometimes gave up the office of President, he always remained the iron-fisted boss who put down every attempt at revolution more ruthlessly than Germany's famed blood purge of 1934. The secret police of Germany, Russia and Italy are notable organizations. They fade into insignificance before those of Dictator Gomez. For every policeman in Caracas Dictator Gomez kept twelve spies...