Word: corking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford: ."The National University of Ireland* last week offered me an honorary degree-in recognition of my Irish descent and for having set up a branch motor car factory at Cork...
...Founded in Dublin, 1909, it has three constituent colleges: the University Colleges of Cork, Galway and Dublin. In 1924 it had a faculty of 163; a student body of 1,975. The Irish Free State has only one other university: the University of Dublin (Trinity College), founded in 1591; faculty 86, student body...
...dark of an Irish moon, last week, "soldiers" of the irregular "Irish Republican (Sinn Fein) Army" cut with a twang many a telegraph wire and thereafter indulged in ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...
...irresistible Mr. Herold on a variety of inspiring topics ranging from Can Openers and Cork Screws to Suppressed Desires...
...table, amid the decorations, rested the consecrated bottle. Thirty chairs were draped with black, among them Adam Marty's. One survivor was too decrepit to make the journey from his Florida home. But three men dined where once 34 had supped. Too soon will the bottle's cork be pulled...