Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Germany declared war and even the Social Democrats voted the war credits, Hitler was transported. Since he was an Austrian, he asked for and received permission to join a Bavarian regiment. The war was wonderful. The army was more wonderful. Hitler was made a corporal, received an Iron Cross, was wounded, and later gassed. While he was recuperating in a hospital near Berlin, news came of the German Revolution of 1918, and of the Armistice that was to save Germany from Allied invasion. Hitler buried his face in his pillow and wept. Then he decided to give...
Pilgrims & Progress. "Picasso lives in ... a magnificent seventeenth-century house. . . . Visitors cross a spacious courtyard, climb a dark winding tiled staircase to the third floor. ... A long narrow anteroom . . . contains a tall iron stove . . . canvases, paint-boxes, pieces of Negro sculpture, sketches . . . and two rows of kitchen chairs. ... A number of these chairs were occupied [by] Communist politicians . . . art dealers, artists as well as miscellaneous pilgrims...
...because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community with gristmill, barns, shops, houses of worship, sawmills, a tannery and a distillery. To keep his workers' energy channeled and profits limited, absolute celibacy...
...word on "Iron" Phil Masquelette. His weekends are spent seeing twin bills at the N.T.S. movie followed by two hours of open order drill. We understand old Sam Wolfe it better reached by asking for "the voice," up on the fourth deck. Shifting the scene to the fishing industry, we found Messrs. Unsinn, Vadakin, Vance, and Violand tripping the line fantastic, greys and all, in that order...
Market for Steel. The depression put Ingalls into the shipbuilding business. In 1932 Ingalls was casting around for new outlets for the steel his Ingalls Iron Works Co. in Birmingham had been fabricating since 1910. One outlet, he decided, was a yard to build dredges and barges for coastal and river service. He built his own yard in Decatur...