Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the camera most friendly to New York's amiable Hayes. The famed Swiss Guards parade in the uniforms which Michelangelo designed for them-cuirasses, helmets, ruffs, yellow, red and black striped knickerbockers. In the larger scenes-the raising of the Cross in the Coliseum, the Chicago and Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April-there is much excited Roman bustling, with crowds surging, clerical robes flapping in the breeze, prelates gesticulating, nodding, signaling. In the signing of the Lateran Treaty, Cardinal Gasparri has pen in hand, treaty before him. With a stout finger...
...discoverer for $400,000. The $15,000,000 Guffey Petroleum Co. (later Gulf Oil) was founded-40% Mellon owned to begin with-more as time went on. In the midst of these busy times, Andrew Mellon, aged 45, finally married. His wife was Nora McMullen, daughter of a Dublin distiller, whom Mellon met while she was visiting in Pittsburgh. Donora, Union Steel's new works, was named after the bride and W. H. Donner, Union Steel's president (first father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt). Considering the other projects which Andrew Mellon had afoot in those years...
...Lusitania. After the War the day came when sorrow was on the island. The fishing was gone under foot. More and more wakes were held for the young people going off to America, and the old ones wondered who would be left to bury them. Maurice went to Dublin, joined the Civic Guard...
...Author, now stationed at Connemara, wrote his book in Gaelic "for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends." The Free State Ministry of Education wanted to print it, with certain revisions. Guardsman O'Sullivan would not be bothered. A young English linguist in Dublin read the autobiography, translated it as faithfully as possible into Irish English, which clings close to the ancient singing Gaelic. Stocky Guardsman O'Sullivan, now 30, seemed satisfied with the translation. "Here is the egg of a sea-bird," writes Author E. M. Forster in a preface, "lovely, perfect, and laid...
Three or four years later there were fewer deaths from diabetes than in 1922 when Toronto's Banting announced insulin. But in recent years the death rate is higher. Explanation (according to Metropolitan Life's famed Dr. Dublin): most of the increased deaths are in the higher age brackets, insulin having lengthened the life of diabetics...