Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters...
...YOUR FOREIGN NEWS SECTION JULY 14TH AN ARTICLE ABOUT ME APPEARED, THE RESULT OF A PRIVATE CONVERSATION MR. SAM WELLES HAD WITH ME DURING HIS RECENT STAY IN WARSAW. BEING MYSELF A JOURNALIST, I HAVE TO EXPRESS MY AMAZEMENT AT THIS ARTICLE, WHICH MUST BE CONSIDERED AS AN INTERVIEW PRINTED WITHOUT MY PREVIOUS CONSENT. IN CONSEQUENCE THERE ARE MANY DISCREPANCIES AND MISTAKES WHICH I HEREBY WISH TO CORRECT...
...England, the Old had the edge. A 1940 air raid left 14th Century Coventry Cathedral a Gothic shell; in 1944, while bombs rained on England, a dispute started raging on how Coventry should be rebuilt. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 67, a Roman Catholic, and one of England's foremost ecclesiastical architects, readapted a design which the Church of England had used but forgotten so long that it seemed new: a cruciform cathedral with the high altar at the center of the cross. This design provided sections of the cathedral where non-Anglicans could worship by themselves. Most of England...
Judged by the advance notices of the Right v. Left split in the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild, its 14th annual convention in Sioux City, Iowa last week was to be a finish fight. As it turned out, both Right and Left concentrated, for different reasons, on removing garrulous Guild President Milton Meadowcroft Murray. They succeeded...
Bertie v. Dante. Like William Randolph Hearst, the Tribune's Robert Rutherford McCormick is more easily caricatured than portrayed. The sharpest shaft ever aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...