Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even of the nobility, could not be given the position of Commander-in-Chief. To prevent friction and quarrels the distinction had to be conferred on some passive, easy-going general who would permit caustic, hard-headed Ludendorff, a neurasthenic with a will as well as muscles of steel, to have his own way. . . . Old General Paul von Hindenburg was on the pension list. . . . He would not disturb or irritate the inordinately egotistical and self-assured Ludendorff. . . . Hindenburg was appointed Commander-in-Chief...
...evening last week a thickset, oval-faced Chinaman with eyes like pinpoints of black steel, strode up and down the station platform at Langfang. The twilight gathered about him. Awed travelers whispered that he was "Little Hsu," the son of "Old Hsu," who was President of China from 1918 to 1922, and that he was the most trusted friend of the present "Chief Executive of China," Tuan...
...Fenway--"Steel Preferred" and "The Last Edition...
...Fenway--"Steel Preferred" and "The Last Edition...
Vere Reynolds and William Royd are not nearly so effective as they were in "The Road to Yesterday." Charlie Murray walks away with the picture in a very silly drunken burlesque. Boyd's pleasant boyishness is deadened by steel furnaces and all those dandy things we used to explore on Chemistry excursions. In fact the whole picture recalls those happy if undignified romps through founderies and sulphuric acid plants. We've wondered since how such industries could go on with all of First Year Chemistry playing hide-and-go-seek among the Bessemers...