Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition." His son John Lewis Roget enlarged and improved the Thesaurus in new editions until his death in 1908. John Lewis' son, Samuel Romilly Roget, physicist who did important work on the "aging"' and electro magnetic qualities of iron, continued the family revisions until 1911. Since then this reference book has been any one's to republish. U. S. publishers are Thomas Y Crowell Co., Theo. E. Schulte, E. P. Dutton & Co., Longmans, Green & Co. The 14th (new) edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica mentions no Rogets, the 11th...
...Once an iron moulder, later a Nonconformist Wesleyan lay preacher, today Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, plodding "Uncle Arthur" Henderson has played until last week something less than second fiddle to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in shaping the Empire's foreign policy. Dramatic therefore was his sprout. The League clock had just struck drowsy 4 p. m. Less than half the delegates were in their seats. The big speech of the day had already been made -so it was thought-by Europe's greatest orator, foxy, cello-throated Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France...
...what about Philip Snowden, the "Iron Chancellor" of British Labor, whom everyone knows to be a lifelong, well-nigh fanatical champion of free trade? The boldest part of Lord Melchett's speech was that in which he quietly brushed the power and prestige of the Chancellor aside...
With these paramount facts in mind the result of the election becomes a lucid alternative: either irascible Prime Minister "Iron Cross" Brüning, protege of President von Hindenburg, will refuse to accept defeat, dissolve the Reichstag a second time as he did last summer (TIME, July 28) and attempt to continue ruling by executive decree; or as is much more likely Herr Brüning's "Concentration Cabinet" of the Centre will quietly give way to a Left-Centre "Grand Coalition" of these same parties plus the Socialists. In either case Reds and Browns would be excluded, may be counted...
Last winter Mr. Replogle eyed this British situation. He made a comprehensive study of it, conferred with Britain's iron-masters and political-masters. Last week he left Vichy for London to confer on his plan, details of which became known for the first time...