Word: breen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week one Deputy, Dan Breen, a Sinn Feiner, took his courage in both hands and took his seat in the Dail. He was not mobbed, but famed Eamon de Valera, onetime self-styled "President of the Irish Republic," said sorrowfully: "We deeply regret Breen's action...
...Story.? One foggy evening in 1900, a tough barge rat from Haverstraw, N. Y., marvels, as always, at the changing masses of Manhattan's skyline seen from the North River. "Gee," he says. "Gee!" He can neither read nor write. He is 16; name, John Breen; parents, a once-pretty Irish servant and someone other than the grimy bargee she calls their "old man." Entering the East River, in thickening fog and greasy tide-rips, the barge is rammed. Loaded with bricks ("the city's red corpuscles") it plunges under. John Breen struggles out of the greenish-black water...
...ghetto family adopts him, the Lipshitzes. He outpunches the Grogan gang, gets used to elevated trains and a million smells. A Bowery bartender who handles pugilists takes him in tow. Like most successful bartenders, Pug Malone is clean-living, highminded. John Breen serves beer, knocks out bruisers, goes to night school. He becomes Malone's assistant on a country farm where men of paunch and riches submit themselves for renovation. One wealthy man, Gilbert Van Horn, less paunchy than most, discovers he is John Breen's father. John finds out too but neither says anything. Van Horn makes John...
Deftly, even dumbly, lie has poised on the cliff of fancy the future of the United Fruit Company. And how well Miss Fyre from the School of Dramatics While you Wait read her correspondence. To say that these schools like the great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square...
...following is the cast, in the order of their appearance: Mrs. Grady C. T. F. B. Lyon '27 Derrick Breen F. M. Eaton '27 George Darling J. C. McDonald '26 Myrtle Grady W. S. Wilson '27 Abercrombie J. H. Wright '25 Hezekiah Fitch R. F. Burke '25 Alice Breen C. S. Gross '27 Suzanne Waring A. M. Carrillo Jr. '26 Hollis Holworthy M. L. Brown '25 Jasper Breen E. S. Daniell...