Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painted her portrait in 1872, the last portrait he ever got past the outraged admissions committee of the Royal Academy. One of the best known portraits in the world, it last week arrived in the U. S. for the first time in 50 years, was exhibited behind a stout iron railing in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Irascible Jimmy Whistler, who signed his pictures with a butterfly and fought with all his friends, painted his mother's picture on the back of a canvas on which he had started the head of a young girl...
...Admiralty Arch and its iron gates (which prudent bobbies had locked) stood like Gibraltar while Admiral Nelson looked down from his Trafalgar Column and saw the line of bobbies hold. A second mob, however, had rushed down Whitehall, 5,000 strong, heading for No. 10 Downing St., the residence of Prime Minister MacDonald. This mob was briefly checked, until police reserves could rush up and beat it back, by a thin line of ornate, scarlet-coated heroes, the Royal Horse Guards?erroneously supposed by tourists to be good for nothing but the ceremony of "changing the guard...
...remind the House," Sir John continued, "that the police were met with stones, glass and pieces of iron taken from railings. I have seen some of these things myself and it is not playful to have a piece of railing weighing from six to nine pounds thrown at you. People who use that kind of missile are not really peaceful citizens...
...Rails are less competitive than other divisions of the steel industry. Only companies other than U. S. and Bethlehem making rails are Inland, National, Colorado Fuel & Iron...
Harvard coaches are looking forward to a tough game this weekend, when Brown returns to the Stadium for the first time in five years. Coach McLaughry of the Bruins has the best team in sight since the famous Brown "Iron Men" of 1926. The starting eleven against the Crimson averages about 185 pounds, thus conceding Harvard little in the way of tonnage. Bob Chase, 162-pound left half-back, is the man around whom practically the whole Bruin attack, both passing and running, is built; and so far he and his teammates have maintained an undefeated record...