Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour lacked ten minutes of high noon. Down Suraga-cho a twinkling limousine purred toward No. 1. It carried Baron Dr. Takuma Dan...
Cork city went with a pop for her hero, President Cosgrave. County Clare whooped in Mr. de Valera. And Tipperary! Sure and in Tipperary they elected who but Dan Breen himself...
...Dan was living only last November in New York City (where Eamon de Valera was born). American money in a grand old Irish way makes Irish history, has made it for 90 years. But Tipperary elected Dan Breen last week just because he is such a rip-roaring ould bouchal. Twenty actual times the British have put actual bullets into him. On Dan's head His Majesty's Government once had a price of ?10,000 ($48.600 then) for his capture...
When they got Dan into prison at last, the British tried to change him from one wing of the prison to another. But Dan would not go. Not until they lugged in a machine gun and trained it on Dan. That decided him to walk. In jail he was elected a Deputy in 1923, so why should not Tipperary elect Dan Breen...
...danger of writing about the Old West is that the author is likely to sound like Zane Grey. Be it noted that Playwright Dan Totheroh (Wild Birds} falls into no such error. And his heroine, Fay Pauline Lord, making her first Broadway appearance since Strange Interlude, helps make this piece a subtle diversion in mood rather than one of spurious heroics...