Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...chastened mood the Reichstag reconvened last week from a six weeks recess, found that President Paul von Hindenburg had just legalized by executive decree 26 drastic retrenchment bills prepared by Prime Minister Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Brüning...
...into the market. Thus they viewed their move as a step toward new business activity. Not for some time will the steelmen's reasoning be submitted to the actual test of orders received. Many a financial writer last week looked back at 1921-22 when the rise of iron and steel prices presaged a business recovery. Apparently forgotten, however, was the fact that in 1922 steel prices rose sharply only after production had commenced a rise as pronounced as its previous fall. Said Lewis H. Haney, director of New York University Bureau of Business Research in Iron Age last...
...money for the Jewish National Fund of which he is world president. He is a short, powerfully built, deter mined man aged 63, a Russian-born engineer. He has lived in Palestine the past ten years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call him "The Iron Will." But his first name, Menachem, means "the comforter." There is an interesting reverse parallelism between Menachem Ussishkin, one of those under whom the Jews are trying to reestablish themselves in Palestine, and King Menahem under whom the Israel ites, Jewish brethren, almost lost the region. The Israelites were still...
...house in a rage. He returns a little later, a little cooler, only to find his wife practicing well-remembered tricks with her old partner. At that there is an explosion. When the smoke clears away you see the great singer raucously peddling fruit, the dumb acrobat swinging iron girders, and the mother putting on a circus act with her acrobatic twins...
Rivalry between the two active house units is assuming an extraordinary aspect. Not to be outdone by "the bells of Lowell," Dunster House is striving to decorate itself wherever a bare surface will support new ornamentation. Wrought iron fences, heavily sculptured panelling, and a Greek vase on the Gatepost are now deemed insufficient. Large emblazoned shields have recently been erected to the growing wonder of the students...