Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here again dynamite came into play, being hurled in packets of 25 lbs. with short-cut fuses, sizzling and whirling over the walls and battlements. At the same time the workers' militia stormed forward with bayonets fixed, the women putting up a barrage of hand grenades. The antique iron-plated gate was blown from its hinges with dynamite, and the sweat-streaming, half-naked advance guard poured into the greatest stronghold but one on the northern front...
...biggest year round seaport and third biggest city with a corporate history going back only half a century. To celebrate Vancouver's 50th anniversary this year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys who profit out of a Depression are the gang...
...Club again if the Kiwanis Club would get up a committee and start subscriptions to move Vulcan from his ignominious post at. the Fair Grounds. John Henry Adams was the first to join. Last May WPA went to the rescue with $44,000 in cash and the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. hastily offered a five-acre plot on top of Red Mountain two-and-a-half miles outside the city...
...friend Caro had a quieter career, learned more from his experiences, lived to keep going the battle that Mudarra lost. Caro loved sad-faced gentle Lucia with quiet constancy, was mocked by his friend for his simplicity in "chewing iron," which was the colloquial term for carrying on a courtship by talking through the iron bars of a sweetheart's window. Mudarra recognized no such restraints. He swept Lucia off her feet, then confessed his betrayal to Caro. The two men fought with knives, found that they did not have the heart to kill each other. Later Lucia bore...
...graphic powers. One of these is a description of a Holy Week procession that is broken up by atheists who smash the images, burn the figures of Christ. "In the middle of the road, Mudarra, his pale face burning with intense purpose, was swinging a bar of iron at the feet of Judas Iscariot. ... In the Square of Our Lady of Carmen the fire smouldered, a wooden head, charred beyond recognition and glowing red at the neck, had rolled towards the street now empty and silent save for a crouching group upon the pavement and a girl sobbing...