Word: dev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the black door of No. 10. The rousing strains of southern Ireland's republican anthem, A Soldier's Song, swelled from the lusty throats. Staid civil servants in black jackets and striped trousers poked their heads out Whitehall's windows. Suddenly the singing ceased. "Up Dev!'' roared the crowds. "A republic-no less!" A tall, gaunt, smiling man appeared for a moment on the doorstep. Then a surge of enthusiastic Irishmen swept away a line of police and pranced beside the car of departing Eamon de Yalera, Prime Minister of the new state...
...adequate to deal with Englishmen, Scotsmen or Welshmen. But last week a heavy guard of Bobbies at Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while the President of Eire was distinctly...
...present about the most ominous feature of the new Constitution: it purports to be the Constitution not of the Irish Free State alone but of all Ireland, including the six counties of Ulster or Northern Ireland which are now part of the United Kingdom. To hotheads who want "Dev" at once to take drastic action, Mr. de Valera last week replied...
Died. His Highness Raj Rishi Shri Sewai Sir Jey Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev, Bharat Dharam Prabhakar, 55, Maharaja of Alwar, exiled in 1933 by the British after an agrarian uprising for which he was held responsible; of apoplexy, possibly resulting from hip and shoulder fractures received when he fell down a stairway upon leaving a squash court; in Paris. He traveled with 400 trunks and a retinue of 25, including an orchestra...
CIRCUS CLUB--Pop Corn, peanuts, Pink lemonade, tanbark, and amusing murals realistically duplicate the atmosphere under the Big Tents. Sally Nye's new three ring circus is well-known to thousands of folk who journey to Provincetown in the summer. For membership and reservations, phone John DEV-onshire...