Word: corney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered U. S. readers a novel far off the subject of his previous books, suggesting that he has put aside the Irish revolution as material for his fiction, and concentrated on tragedies of peace more compatible with his peaceful style of writing. This time he tells the story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather, an old Fenian who lived...
...Corney suffered when he visited his friend in jail, absorbed his grandfather's hatred of England and its ways, but his heart was not in politics. On a trip to London, Elsie got away from her brothers, who were all priests, and became his mistress. But her father refused to let her marry one of the shiftless Crones. When she became pregnant she almost went crazy while Corney made plans that came to nothing. At desolate, run-down Youghal Corney decided to confess to her father. Thereupon she tried to drown herself, brought on a miscarriage that killed...
...Elsa M. Corney is a lady of Fairhaven, Mass, (near New Bedford) who used to live in The Beeches, Northampton, Mass. Until she sold The Beeches to Calvin Coolidge, hers was a peaceful life. Last week she told a New Bedford newsgatherer what happened to her after the Coolidges came into her life. She was "a marked woman . . . shaken and wretched." Returning to The Beeches from her first conference with Mr. Coolidge, she found 18 photographers on the grounds taking pictures. Because she feared a public auction would attract swarms of souvenir-seekers she had to sell $5,000 worth...
...falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout, U. S. coxswain of the Cambridge boat, veered over toward the bank, looking for shelter. The water was white all the way to Corney Reach, at the second bend, but Oxford felt the wind most; Cambridge was closing up, and going to Barnes Bridge little Swartwout's barks quickened, his shell moved even. The crowd in Duke's Meadows on Middlesex Isle saw Cambridge take the lead and the crowd on the bridge...