Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...There is no point at which the development of the machine is a menace. An iron chisel is better than a flint one, and a steel chisel is better than an iron one. Could there be a point at which the cutting quality of the chisel could be made so fine that it would be a menace? Obviously...
Four Teutons, each famed as an "Iron Man" at one time or another, clashed last week and clanked...
...Iron Adolf Hitler, Fascist victor in the last election (TIME, Sept. 22), warned iron President Paul von Hindenburg that if iron Chancellor Heinrich Brüning again dissolves the Reichstag and continues to rule Germany under the "emergency clause" (Article 48) of the Constitution, "then the Brüning Government is illegal and will provoke a large part of the German people also to resort to illegal methods...
Chancellor Brüning stuck to his threat, hammered out for enactment (by decree, if the Reichstag refuses to vote it next week) a Reform program which metal-minded German editors at once called "the iron broom of destiny...
...stomachs. Today, with the Fascist Party comparatively civilized, there is talk in Rome that Civilizer Turati is perhaps "too mild." His successor is not. Up and down Italy nervous people know that Giovanni Battista Giuriati has metaphorically bashed and smashed from Fiume to the Quirinal. But, "man of iron" though he is, the new secretary general's head is comparatively clear. He will scarcely make such a mistake as the Fascist murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti in 1924?the crime which nearly wrecked Il Duce's regime. (TIME, June...