Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smoking election torches marched through Dublin streets by night last week. "Up de Valera!" roared the torch bearers, and Ireland's hero was carried shoulder high. Excited Irishmen swore on every hand that Eamon de Valera would soon succeed William Thomas Cosgrave as President of the Irish Free State. With a third of the votes still to be counted, Mr. Cosgrave conceded grimly, "It looks as though my Government would...
...length of time they have held power. Mr. Cosgrave has been President uninterruptedly since 1922-nearly ten years. Such a thing is not tolerated in the U. S., and the Irish people were not in a tolerant mood last week. The record of Cosgrave who was born in Dublin and the record of his Government-both excellent records-did not matter. Ten years is too long for a man to be President...
...Easter Sunday, 1916, the rattle of shells in O'Connell Square, Dublin, from columns of British soldiery revealed to the word that another generation of Irish youth had made its bid for liberty. The leaders of the revolt were crushed as speedily as their predecessors had been, but among the rank and file there were those who carried on the tradition of insurgency even after peace had been patched up. Chief among them was Eamon De Valera, whose career closely parallels that of Hitler in Germany. Today, after a decade spent in leading a lost cause, he seems likely...
Under the leadership of Professor Seamus O'Casey, Dublin schoolmasters last week began a campaign to have all talking pictures made in Gaelic. Said Headmaster O'Casey: "It is bad enough when a boy acknowledges an order with the reply, 'Okay, chief,' but imagine the position of a headmistress who is addressed in a nasal drawl with the words, 'Okay, baby...
...Louis Israel Dublin, statistician for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., discovered by investigating 38,269 Eastern college graduates that Phi Beta Kappa men and honor students live longer than athletes and plain graduates...