Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor James Delargy of University College, Dublin, will lecture on Irish folklore in the New Lecture Hall next Wednesday night, instead of in the Institute of Geographical Exploration as was previously announced. The lecture is scheduled for 8 o'clock and will be open to the public...
Victim of "one of those goddam spurious Irish colleges," Carroll as a young man lit out for Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...
Nicole was an egoistic, adventurous, impressionable, plain-looking, book-loving French girl. Her motto, borrowed from a religious martyr, was Resist. "Resisting" many a Frenchman, Nicole at 18 went to Dublin to teach French in a language school. When she met Michael Brandon, handsome journalist, and budding diplomat, her resistance collapsed-against the universal warning of her friends, who called him arrogant, priggish, sadistic and a lot besides...
...qualification to head the Department of Justice, the youngest (45) Cabinet member can point to studies at University of Michigan (law degree, 1914), Lincoln's Inn, London and Trinity College, Dublin. As a chief assistant U. S. District Attorney (1920-23), his greatest feat was sending two big Army grafters to prison. He served seven years (1923-30) on the bench of Detroit's Recorder's Court, handling criminal cases with the enlightening aid of a psychiatrist and a sociologist, his own innovation. In two terms as Detroit's mayor, three years as Governor-General...
...Some of the Irish wanted to help some of the Jews. A committee of Catholics and Jews was formed in Dublin under Frank Fahy, Speaker of the Dail, to make a public appeal for funds to rescue and house 20 families of German and Austrian refugees...