Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving in Dublin, Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera and his daughter Maureen collided with a butcher's truck...
...wealth if not in prestige the open-handed Toronto millionaires are a match for Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...
...Dublin's Dr. Gogarty may go down in history merely as the original of Malachi Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, but if so he will go down fighting. Ever since the publication of James Joyce's big book (1922), legends of Dr. Gogarty's near-mythical person have been stealing round the world like a slow smile. His many friends in Dublin could swear he was flesh-&-blood, but it was not till this week that the struggle for existence between the live doctor and the fictitious medical student began to look like a fair fight...
...Dublin through which Gogarty takes his sometimes headlong but not always straightforward course is peopled with queer, usually delightful characters, many of them transatlantically famed. Francis Hackett, George Moore, AE, William Butler Yeats, many a lesser fish swim through the bright underwater of Gogarty's world, and few of them are not good for a laugh, for Gogarty is never reverent even where he admires. Queerest fish of the lot is one "Endymion," who regularly steers his course home by compass, was once arrested for sabering a ham (which he had previously bought) running off with...
Most effective part of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes scheme, from the point of view of Ireland, is that it not only sup ports Irish hospitals so luxuriously but does so almost entirely at the expense of the rest of the world. The drawing itself is naturally a Dublin shindig. Last week, as usual, the hall in the Lord Mayor's man sion was appropriately decorated, this time to represent "That Drawn-the-Favorite Feeling," with a stage set representing a Castle of Dreams. When the tickets had been drawn, by Ireland's prettiest young nurses, it was found...