Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three historic draw matches. In the third Muldoon broke Whistler's collarbone. In 1881 Muldoon discovered John L. Sullivan, arranged his first New York boxing match at Harry Hill's. Eight years later, when Sullivan was world's champion, Muldoon trained him at his farm in Belfast, N. Y., curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball...
...possible, TIME, that you do not know the Prince of Wales has a "double" who went to Belfast? That small, simple fact explains why the Irish acted as they did. Of course English papers cannot mention such things but I have spent enough of my life with English people who know to know...
...telegraph wires on the Kells-to-Belfast line were cut. At Belfast itself a luncheon in honor of H. R. H. Patrick had to be cancelled...
Drums are Beaten, Even further outside Belfast than Stormont is Hillsborough Village, dominated by the Castle of Governor the Duke of Abercorn. Protestant villagers lit bonfires, shouted "God Bless The Prince of Wales!", beat their lamlegs (big goatskin drums...
Half an hour later, the villagers boosted Patrick up to the Castle wall from which he waved goodbye as they shouted "Come back again!" Next day British headlines and dispatches gave the impression that Patrick had "mingled with crowds" in Belfast (not in a hand-picked village), talked of the "momentous consequences," made much of a surprise visit by H. R. H. next day to a linen thread works at Lisburn where he was "mobbed by laughing colleens...