Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied an exploding arsenal with water buckets. Little metal knicknacks were pondered on with shrugging shoulders. Unidentified. Meanwhile, other Navy committees investigate...
...this respect his desires are fulfilled. Just as Mathematician Charles L. Dodgson quite vanished behind Lewis ("Wonderland") Carroll, so Political Economist Dr. Leacock is concealed- save where the solid metal of sense frequently thrusts through the dazzling enamel of nonsense- behind the author of Literary Lapses, Frenzied Fiction, Further Foolishness, etc., etc. These books, he modestly says, are "of so humorous a character that for many years it was found impossible to print them. The compositors fell back from their task suffocated with laughter...
Fiat,* largest automobile company in Europe and largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost...
Potash is one of the sloppy words of English. Originally it meant wood ashes (potassium carbonate). Now it may mean caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) or even pure potassium oxide, an excellent fertilizer. By potash people mean potassium, a, metal absolutely essential to plant life.* When drained from the soil potassium (as one of its salts) must be replaced in the form of a fertilizer, else only weazened crops will result. The primitive farmer manures his plot with stable gleanings and slaughter-shed offal. The Chinese peasant assiduously gathers the dried plaques of cow dung, the desert agrarian those left...
...drawing out his days as caretaker of a disused copper mine. He was full of stories about the great days of the silver rush at Virginia City; of how he had drunk and gambled away his takings; about how his partner, Billy Clark, had been more sensible, saved his metal, gone into politics, retired as one of the country's wealthiest men with money to burn "down East" on rich living, art and suchlike...