Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shannon. Through the courtesy of the Free State Government a bullet proof automobile was lent. At Portumna, they discovered that Irish firebrands had tried to burn the castle and had also set fire to several hayricks. Graciously then Viscount Lascelles penned a note to the Irish Free State expressing deep "regret if the visit to the Free State has . . . caused suffering to anyone in Ireland and hope that some way will be found whereby no vindictive action will be taken against the suspected and misguided men who might have considered that their visit has any political significance." Thereafter Princess Mary...
...first prize was won by Claggett Wilson of Manhattan, 'The second by Mr. Jensen. Artist Wilson, called "Clag" by his cronies, is darkly massive, fastidious, redolent of success. He suggests no garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist...
Parson Faunce (the name rhymes with Harvardized "chawnce") is short, dignified and deep voiced. He faintly resembles Cartoonist Bairnsfather's "Old Bill." He has poise, personality, pudginess. He invariably wears wing collars, four-in-hand cravats. Cigars have never yellowed his teeth; spirits have never tainted his breath. He is precise in conduct, a precisionist in speech...
...deep into the stone is the name "Cormac McCarthy" and the date "A.D. 1446." But legend says it was in 1602 that Cormac McCarthy agreed to surrender Blarney Castle to the English and then put off doing so again and again until the situation changed and he was allowed to keep his castle...
...good for him," slept with her friend and committed suicide. Her son grew up to be a sneak-thief; to have him with her she rented furnished rooms and started to give lessons. For one of the girls who attended her classes, Theresa came to possess a deep and sacrificial love; it appeared that she was to marry the girl's father but when everything had been arranged he died and Theresa was left alone, unhappy, and growing old. Franz, her son, had by this time become a pimp and jailbird; he came home to his mother only when...