Word: breen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small boy would resent it if he were told that his little yellow dog was no dog at all just because its ears were too short, its tail too long, its bark absurd. In Manhattan last week the same sort of loyalty seized May Singhi Breen who for eight years has earned her living thrumming a ukulele for the radio,* improvising ukulele accompaniments for sheet music...
...Breen is an easygoing, practical-joking soul (her dinner guests have been given rolls which squeak when bitten). But her wrath was aroused when the American Federation of Musicians refused her admittance on the grounds that the ukulele is not a musical instrument. The Federation, it seemed, had never even been asked to recognize it before. Yet the ukulele does not have to be played in a hit-or-miss fashion just because it is smaller and cheaper than its cousin, the union-approved guitar. Unlike the harmonica, lowliest of wind instruments, the ukulele has all the chromatics...
...Andelman, Dorchester, W. Barnes, Belmont, E. R. Barron, Roxbury, L. M. Barron, Derby, Conn., F. C. Bartor, Walban, D. W. Baxter, Belmont, J. I. Berkman, Cambridge, I. V. O. Borodin, Cambridge, E. F. Bowditch, Concord, H. S. Bowen, Honolulu, Hawaii, J. A. Bradley, Lawrence, T. M. Breen, Brooklyn, N. Y., H. J. Brown, Cambridge, R. D. Brown, West Medford, J. O. Burack, Brockton, E. E. Calvin, Squantum, E. C. Carman, Springfield, F. J. Casale, New Britain, Conn., R. T. Cassidy, Marblehead, H. R. Chalke, Plainville, Conn., C. R. Cherington, N. Y. City, J. A. Christenson, Concord, F. F. Clapp, Cambridge...
...summary: B. U. 1935 HARVARD DORMITORY Breen, l.e. r.e., Selbert Hicks, l.t. r.t., Allan Besorosky, l.g. r.g., Cassidy Myer, c. c., Walsh, Tisdale Taylor, r.g. l.g., Newton Rachestes, r.t. l.t., Sturgis McEvoy, r.e. l.e., Page Whelton, q.b. q.b., Holmes Storer, l.h.b. r.h.b., Drimmer Kurtis, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bates Kostarelos Fitzmaurice, f.b. f.b., Chapman
Promoter of Tipperary's All-Ireland Champions is Dan Breen, famed leader of Sinn Fein riots from 1919 to 1923, onetime Commandant General of the Third Tipperary Brigade in the Irish Republican Army, before that a famed Tipperary hurler...