Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That touched many an Irish heart. John Aloysius Costello, the Taoiseach, announced that he would himself go to London and offer the canned beef at a more attractive price. James Dillon, the Minister of Agriculture and a grand one with a ringing phrase, told why Eire could do no less: "We will never ask [the British] to feed on canned horse ... It is one of the destinies reserved by God for the Irish to chasten the British-and to cherish them in their hour of adversity...
...Noose Hangs High--Abbott and Costello are window-washers. At the Metropolitan. Last...
Academic freedom shivered a little in the anti-Communist wind: ¶A New York State Supreme Court justice ordered the Buffalo school board to reinstate Teacher Eleanor Dushane, and give her $1,000 in back pay. Principal Charles J. Costello of Buffalo's East High had charged the fortyish schoolmarm with insubordination, subversive activity and inefficiency. Her real offense: posting a classroom notice of a lecture by PM Pundit Max Lerner...
Bring 'Em Back Alive. In Syracuse, N.Y., Mayor Frank J. Costello* bit his lip and disclosed how things were at the zoo: the leopard had been there 20 years, and was secondhand at that; the jaguar had bitten off the leopard's tail; the lion not only had cataracts but was sharing his den with rabbits...
...Racket King Frank Costello of Manhattan and New Orleans...