Word: celtic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McSorley's "own kind," the Irish, and Hollywood, which is currently underwriting a Celtic Renaissance, will probably...
Lustig pleaded not guilty, said: "The investigation was started as a result of our own request to the Government." Snapped U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey in Celtic wrath: "He acted only after learning . . . that his books were being examined...
Religion & Happiness. Asia's richest gifts to the U.S., says Harvard's Philosopher-Emeritus William Ernest Hocking, are spiritual. Without its spiritual guid ance, "God knows what religion we would have - possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins. . . . Whatever forms of religion are alive among us we owe to Asia." "We of the West," declares Novelist Pearl Buck, "need to have happiness restored to us, not through a new spiritual rebirth, but through a plain and simple return [to the Eastern conviction that] what makes a human being happy is to feel himself wanted...
...headline; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed verdict, on James Joyce's Ulysses: ''Many of the words . . . characterized as dirty are old Saxon words known to almost all men and, I venture, to many women. . . . It must ... be remembered that [Joyce's] locale was Celtic and his season was spring...
Down to Scrapfaggot Green for United Press hurried an Irish expert on leprechauns, Dr. D. J. G. MacSweeney. Admittedly, witches were a little out of his line, but the doctor went to work with Celtic canniness, came up with a report-on Publican Sykes. "He is an upstanding citizen . . . but, I fear, a man with a glass in his eye for business. . . . All the witnesses were customers of his pub. . . . The witch legend is a matter for hooting and disbelief in adjoining Little Waltham. Little Walthamites in road crews assure me they have moved the stone a score of times...