Word: belfasters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyone wishing to "acquire a bloody nose," remarked a British reviewer last year, need only go to Dublin or Belfast and spout a few well-chosen lines from Arland Ussher's The Face and Mind of Ireland. Ussher, an Irish philosopher and art critic, paid his people handsome compliments, but he also larded in some remarks that no Irishman could take lying down-e.g., "To all appearance the Irish really have no sexual life, beyond the minimum necessary to perpetuate their cantankerous species...
...make a universal tragic figure of a common scold is no ordinary wordster. Irishmen know Michael McLaverty, 42, a teacher in a Belfast parochial school, as one of their finest contemporary writers. U.S. readers, because of the strong local coloration of most of McLaverty's stories, have been slow to take...
...bulk of the team traveled to Dublin two days later to compete in an open meet and a scheduled-meet between Queen's College of Belfast and Trinity College of Dublin at Belfast the following night. Al Wilson won the shot and discus in both meets. Mello in the pole vault, Grutzner in the 440, Sid Williams of Yale in the high hurdles, George Dole and Frank Effinger of Yale in the middle distances, and George Hipple turned in winning performances during the three days of track meets...
While abroad, the Crimson team will also meet competitors from the Dublin University, in that city, and the Northern Ireland University at Belfast...
After the Cambridge-Oxford meet, the Harvard-Yale team boards a boat for Dublin for a meet on the 26th and 27th. On the 28th, it enters its last competition in Belfast...