Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zionist conference in London for International News Service and made her a newspaperwoman. To her new career she brought the same mixture of romanticism and vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed $500 from Sigmund Freud to go to Warsaw and covered the Pilsudski revolution in evening dress. She was almost shot in Bulgaria. In Vienna she established a salon of sorts and entertained...
That rumor last week led a reporter to seek out Janizary Corcoran. Found in Washington's Powhatan Hotel restaurant devouring a filet mignon, Tommy the Cork said he had not seen Mayor LaGuardia in six months. "Must be somebody else," said he between bites. "I hear there's another Tom Corcoran...
Irishmen hailed the bounding green silks of Tim Hyde with a mighty roar. Merseysiders went wild. An Irish priest shouted encouragement in Gaelic. For Workman was Irish-bred by a Cork pubkeeper, Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then...
...said, "Give me the making of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws,"* had never heard of the U. S. Supreme Court. Tommy-the-Cork Corcoran and his boss, the President, love ballads, but believe that the laws they have got on the statute books are better and should be preserved to posterity by a high court minded like the New Deal's lawmakers...
...born in Minnesota, lived in the State of Washington from 1904 to 1922, hence is a Westerner. From his hospital bed in Baltimore, where he was recuperating from an appendectomy and faithfully hatching out some hen's eggs (TIME, Feb. 13), Janizary Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran applauded. Mr. Douglas was called to the White House. When the President left town without making any appointments, the Douglas trial-balloon was still...