Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...general textiles and clothing, agricultural implements and products, household machines head the list of imports saddled with higher duties. The steel and iron schedules bristle with slight changes, but of U. S. products only iron pipe is jacked up decisively from $10 to $14 per ton. Because Canada's autompbile industry is as yet too infantile to supply Dominion demands if further protected there is no change in this bracket. Motor cars from the U. S. will continue to enter at 20% (those retailing up to $1,200) and 271% (retailing over...
...fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years ago through cast-iron hydrants and bronze pipes into dingy pagodas and drinking halls. This despite the fact that Saratoga Springs have the only naturally carbonated water east of the Rockies, that hydrotherapists consider them even more effective than Germany's Bad-Nauheim (Saratoga's nearest chemical affinity) in treating diseases of the heart...
Author William R. Burnett (TIME, July 1, 1929; Jan. 13) wrote five novels, 50 short stories before he published his first book, Novel No. 6. It was Little Caesar, chosen by the Literary Guild (June 1929). His next book, Iron Man, was Book-of-the-Month for January 1930. Successful, married, he lives in Los Angeles...
...follow a student resident in one of the Houses through his day's routine. He wakes on the narrow iron bedstead of his private chamber in one of those delightful little suites, bathes under the shower in the bathroom which he shares with his roommate if the suite is double. He can dress besides an open fire in his study (though all the rooms are steam heated) and if the weather is stormy he can, by descending into the basement, walk to the dining hall from any room in the House without going out of doors. He may breakfast...
...Master's residence at Dunster fronts the river. In Lowell House the Master is not so lucky, but the architects have consoled him most successfully with a brick-walled garden close, its lawn shaded by two elms and a buckeye tree, and descended to by a short flight of iron-railed stond steps from French windows opening out of the living room and dining room bays. Even in its present unflowered-gardened state the place is a stage setting ready for the actors to come on and speak their lines. These lines are from "Pendennis." You will remember that exquisite...