Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upper Michigan copper and iron mines increased their work week from three to five days...
...correspondent found eleven lucky slum children quartered on a big estate with yew trees, sunken lawns, wrought-iron gates and a flock of servants to wait on them. When he arrived, the children were clinging to their delighted host's coattails, calling him "Uncle." They reported that they had roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for dinner, were allowed to read...
Reason for the sudden change: the advent of World War II changed the minds of Marion's customers in the latent coal-copper-iron business. They wanted shovels -wanted them fast. In ten days Marion got $1,000,000 worth of orders (one-sixth of a normal year's business...
...when modern kids are only eligible to be Tenderfoot Scouts, Dan and his gang were running the Union pickets, ducking Minie balls in No Man's Land along the Licking River outside Covington, sneaking into Union trenches, sniping at a Rebel gang across the river with rocks, scrap iron, shotguns loaded with nails and gravel...
...iron cot in a concentration camp not far away lies the once-famous, still beautiful actress Emmy Ritter, convalescent and condemned to death. There is little chance that any friend knows she is there. After her trial she managed to scribble a note for Mark, her son, and give it to Fritz, the surly old servant of the Ritters who had been brought to testify. But Mark is in New York, and Fritz may not have dared or cared to mail it to him. Emmy no longer has influential friends; she has lived for 23 years in America. There...