Word: alton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the bloody bubble of Dublin's Easter Rising fizzled out in 1916, it left a number of ruined buildings, a few snipers still forlornly shooting from housetops, a profound wave of disillusionment in the Irish revolutionary movement. Last week, a young Irishman named Louis Lynch D'Alton dramatized the change in revolutionary hearts in a bitter first novel that showed how two Irishmen reacted to the Easter Week fiasco. To Revolutionist Andrew Kilfoyle, who fought in it, the Rising was sickening, "a revolt of poets and schoolmasters," inept, ill-planned, melodramatic, futile. It convinced him that next...
DEATH IS SO FAIR - Louis Lynch D'Alton-Doubleday, Doran...
...Fair ranks far below masterpieces of the Irish Civil War like Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer or the stories of Sean O'Faolain. But it has a peculiar, acrid flavor, as harsh as the smell of rifle fire, which stamps Author D'Alton as a novelist of individuality and power. It tells of the war with the Black & Tans-ambushes, traps, the killing of spies and suspected spies-in battles that were more like U. S. gangfights than like civil war. Kilfoyle was a master of such tactics; Considine was horrified no less by Irish...
Kite's activities, which they all knew. By her own admission, she had smashed slot machines out of pique, because Alton officials last May had closed down a dice game her husband Dan was running...
Divorced. Elizabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Chapman Brody, book-writing daughter of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb; from Manhattan Broker Alton A. Brody; in Las Vegas...