Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...according to the rumors and alarms that last week swept Rumania, was burly, granite-jawed Col. Pricup, Carol's old friend and the man who arranged his flying trip from Paris to Bucharest and the throne in 1930. His henchmen were Rumania's Fascist, Jew-hating Iron Guard. Forty of them had been on trial for the murder of Premier Ion G. Duca last December, had been acquitted. Col. Pricup noted that fact with interest. Carol had not rewarded him nearly enough since 1930. Lupescu intrigued against him. Two months ago he joined the Iron Guard and began...
...department, a handful of colonels, a truckload of captains, down to a group of students who were supposed to start demonstrations in the street as soon as the assassinating had properly begun. Last week Rumania lay paralyzed by its worst assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere news." Police called in foreign correspondents who had slipped out "mere news" stories, lectured them and held the New York Times' correspondent Dr. Eugen Kovacs for six hours. The favorite substitute story was that...
...developed that behind the conspiracy was a mixed combination of malcontents. Some of them were men of alien Transylvania which the Treaty of Trianon took from Hungary to add to Rumania. Others were Iron Guardsmen, deputized by their mystical and formidable leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Others were plain Lupescu-haters. Still others were merely against Premier Tatarescu. All that united them was hatred for the Sinaia Camarilla, the group of Lupescu's friends who meet with the King at the palace of Sinaia...
...dangerous play: they swam the Guadalquivir at night, climbed into a bullpen and played the bulls naked, using their shirts as matadors' capes. Banderillero Calderon took Belmonte under his wing, taught him everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety. He served a rough apprenticeship in the ring, fighting wherever...
Through work on a book on Engineering Materials, with chapters on Testing machines; iron--gray, malleable, wrought, alloy; carbon and alloy steels; heat treating; non-ferrous metals and alloys; copper, tin, nickel, lead, zinc, aluminum, etc., I have come in contact with many products and processes. In spite of the depression, there is marked activity in research work, and as there is activity in this field, then this is the one to train students to enter, instead of in the already overcrowded ones...