Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well after 11 before husky, broad-shouldered Governor Landon, his collar-ends flapping and his short, iron-grey hair rumpled, showed up at his office in the State House for his 11 o'clock press conference. Seven newshawks were waiting for him. "Well, well, look who's here," twanged the Governor, a wide smile crinkling his plain, friendly face. "Top o' the mornin' to you all." Slouched back in his chair, brown eyes half-closed behind his octagonal rimless spectacles, the Governor talked about the weather, a fishing trip he planned to take, the lack...
Louis F. Fieser for a study of organic chemicals which produce cancer compounds; H. O'Neill Mencken for the fifth Harvard archaeological expedition in Ireland, to conclude the study of the Iron Age and to pursue that of the Early Christian period...
...With his Government launched on an enormous and costly campaign of national defense, he could see no likelihood of military expenses declining in the next year or two, every chance that taxes would soon mount to five shillings in the pound. Wailed Sir Francis L'Estrange Joseph, coal & iron tycoon: "The British Taxpayer is back in Bleak House...
...battle Captain Niggl gets back to safety. Lieutenant Kroysing is reported missing. Meantime Berlin, whose company is in charge of an ammunition dump, is the only one to keep his head and stick to his post during a bombardment. A well-meaning artillery officer recommends him for The Iron Cross. Only result is that Berlin is given a more dangerous job: scavenging for dud shells...
...work in "labor camps" under such admirable conditions that some refuse to leave when their terms are up. Stalin has no dictatorial powers; he is just an exceptionally able comrade. Censorship of the printed word, called "political editing," never annoys the politically educated. What Chamberlin (Russia's Iron Age) calls the famine of 1932, Author Strong prefers to characterize as a "grain shortage" attributable largely to kulak sabotage. Soviet women are all equal with men, are found in the front ranks of every enterprise. The Uzbek factory girls celebrate their emancipation in song...