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From Bohola-born Mayor Bill O'Dwyer down, New York's Irish seemed to think that Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, ought to be ashamed of himself. When he arrived in the U.S., 200 of them thronged out, under the leadership of a Brooklyn judge, to see that he was. When his plane arrived, they booed him lustily-partly for banning a Saint Patrick's Day parade in Londonderry, partly for representing the hated partition of Ireland, and partly for supporting the British Crown. "There'll Always Be An England While...
...Basil, a tall, spare tweedy fellow, not only exhibited a rather devilish pride, but took a loftily critical view of their performance. Listening to the volume of booing, he said rather sniffily, "I am not at all impressed." A reporter asked him for his wife's first name. Said he: "Do you know your first name, my dear?" She said it was Cynthia, and he beamed. "That," he cried, "is why I married her. She has a terrific sense of humor...
...been such a noisy place since V.J day that the Irish-even in the U.S.-had hardly been able to get in a word of protest against England. But last month, New York's Irish-born Mayor William O'Dwyer got some stirring intelligence from home: Sir Basil Brooke, the British Prime Minister of partitioned Northern Ireland, had 1) banned Saint Patrick's Day parades among his constituents, and 2) announced that he would soon visit...
Brickbats at the Window. When the news was relayed to him, Sir Basil tried to turn it with a soft word. But his answer was lost in a series of outraged shouts. John J. Hearne, first Irish ambassador to the U.S. and a newcomer to Washington, characterized the partition of Ireland as a "crime against the whole principle of democratic government." Then Rhode Island's Congressman John Fogarty carried the ringing cause to the floor of Congress...
...Died. Basil Garwood ("Professor Lam-berti") Lambert, 58, "mad xylophonist" of vaudeville; after long illness; in Hollywood. Professor Lamberti's best known act: he played repeated xylophone encores, to wild applause, apparently unaware that a stripteuse was performing behind his back...