Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Months ago, with trunks full of silver and an iron constitution, General Wu Ti-chen went to Mukden to give a few parties for Chang, to make a final attempt to win him permanently to the Nationalist government. Smart Son Chang enjoyed the parties. At Wu's expense they ate bushels of fresh red caviar, gallons of bird's nest soup, mountains of sharks' fins, plovers' eggs, washed down by more gallons of champagne. Platoons of sing-song girls were imported. Merchants ransacked their storehouses for jewels, brocades and rare jades, with General Wu always footing the bill...
...whale itself a Lilliputian thing, a mental cosine, is not managed, but Barrymore again makes a living character of Ahab. Triumphantly drunk, he swaggers through the wharfside brothels of the whaling town. There is a scene in which the stump of his bitten leg is seared with a hot iron and a closeup of him finally cutting his vengeance out of the whale that took the leg. Other great shots: the shanghaied crew of murderers; enlarged projections of the whaler under full sail in a choppy sea, wild-eyed Ahab battling a storm. The shot of the amputation was included...
This year's will be the first International team since 1909 to go into action without the iron-wristed centaur-rider, Devereux Milburn. The polo feudality that was once built around Milburn now centres about Hitchcock. More, it centres about three Hitchcocks-the son who is captain, the father whose duties on the Defense Committee are to see that the ponies are properly trained and stabled; and the mother, polo's matriarch, the captain's teacher, a word from whom at the dinner table might well settle a point in strategy, even a contested place...
Vital, active, with iron-grey, curly, bobbed hair, Mrs. Hitchcock wears riding boots and breeches through most summer days. At 65 she still talks in the soft New Orleans drawl of her girlhood. She and her husband and son are thorough refutations of the tradition that polo, game of the rich, is controlled by snobs. The Hitchcock influence is largely responsible for the new feeling that real polo talent from anywhere in the land is welcome on Long Island to help defend the Cup. At least one Californian seems sure to be on the team this year, for the first...
...More basic commodity than steel is the pig iron from which steel comes. Last week's Iron Age reported pig iron production during the first seven months was off 17.8% from last year, 3.2% from 1928. But production in August started off at the lowest daily rate for any month in nearly six years...