Word: corking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 39, White House counselor; and Peggy Dowd, 27, his attractive, redhaired, hard-working secretary; suddenly, in Leesburg...
...crowd which still remembered vividly the martyrdom of men like Terence MacSwiney, playwright, editor, onetime Mayor of Cork, who starved himself to death in a London prison; of Sir Roger Casement, convicted of high treason and hanged in Pentonville Prison; of James Connolly, whose Easter Rebellion wounds the British cured only so that he could later be shot. Whether or not Richards and Barnes would measure up to the martyrs on this list, the fact was that the 700-year-old Irish hatred for Britain was again sorely inflamed. Best expression of Irish feeling came in a resolution...