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Friday morning before dawn's crack they headed for him again. To their surprise, 450 miles off the coast, they saw below them not just the Jap Fleet but a Donnybrook Fair that had all the earmarks of a private fight between the Jap and U.S. Navies. A U.S. flotilla had taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: IN THE CORAL SEA | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...determination. The Rolling Fourth plowed into Drum's center, inflicting heavy "casualties" and slowing up the Blue advance. The First Armored swung to the west and plowed into Drum's flank. The Second went around the other end. In the center and on the flanks a Donnybrook Fair began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Second Battle of the Carolinas | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Last week, with a legislative Donnybrook impending over New York's newly voted pari-mutuel system, Manhattan turf writers had plenty to write about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spanish Custom | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Cleveland are realizing that Donnybrook Fair was just an old maids' tea party: we're in the throes of another Legion roughhouse. The maudlin, impudent, vicious, and obscene nuisances being committed here are nothing short of a national disgrace. From disinterested Cleveland citizens I have heard only strong disapproval and condemnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...primaries. As he added the list of his campaign expenses the thought suddenly came to him that perhaps he had not spent enough. His total was precisely $6.75-the price of a good mashie or a mediocre quart of Scotch. Thereupon, he, Candidate H. N. Midtbo of Donnybrook, N. D., despatched a postal card to the Secretary of the Senate, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Illinois | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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