Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the decree powers voted him by the Chamber before it rose (TIME, Oct. 31), the Premier: 1) requisitioned for the State the principal 26.000 miles of railway in France and its rolling stock; 2) sent steel-helmeted Mobile Guards to take away from alien workmen their permits to work in France, telling them on Saturday that if they came back to work Monday and showed a disposition to work Wednesday (General Strike Day), they would get back their cards Monday; 3) put on the alert the General Staff, the Army and all engines by which the State might reasonably...
...crouched down and, at the command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak. They lit and leaped again, dancing up & down in a swirl of feathers, the lightning death strokes of their steel gaffs* too quick for the human...
...sides). Two years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin and his ministry of art, worried about the trend Russian music was taking, flayed the works of Russian modernists for reflecting "leftist tendencies." Those curious to know what it was that worried Comrade Stalin will find it in Mossolov's pounding Steel Foundry and Meytuss' cacophonous Dnieper Water Power Station, both included on these discs...
...depression he gets control of a steel mill, ruins a rich rival who once snubbed him. But he neglects his wife, his only daughter dies, a victim of his money-mania, his son hates him, turns poet, loves the daughter of MacTay's ruined rival. And when MacTay dies on the eve of the World War, having just completed a vast merger, his wife is quickly comforted by the thought that death is a kindlier rival than coal mines and steel mills...
When last seen he was wearing a reversible coat and brown felt hat, and he wears very heavy glasses with steel rims. He stands 5 feet 8 inches high and weighs 140 pounds...