Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after dying in Dublin with chains around his body? A saint, sure...
...William Orpen, K. B. E., R. A. was born in Stillorgan, County Dublin, 52 years ago. He was an incredible little man who looked like a Gaelic gnome, used to smoke 70 cigarets a day, eat four meals, sleep twelve hours and walk 15 miles. To an enormous circle of acquaintances he was known quite simply as Billy Orps. His career started in 1890 when he won a L2Q scholarship at the age of 12 and began to study painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He went to London and studied at the Slade School when that dusty...
...Boss Curry, who used to be a sprinter, scampered to the sidelines uninjured. Martin Kennedy, called "the man in the hat" because he always wears one, and considered the finest full forward in the world, made three goals for Tipperary. Tom Treacy, famed for a game he played in Dublin with a bloody bandage wrapped around his head, made another, with a shot from midfield that streaked directly into the New York goal. Most spectacular player on either team was Tom O'Meara of Toomevara, Tipperary's goal guard. He kept his stick so busy fending ball...
President Hoover's Philippine assignment was hardly a welcome order for sportive Secretary Hurley, the youngest and most social member of the Cabinet. He had planned to go to Dublin for a gay August at the horse show. He always liked horse shows. At a pre-War one he met for the second time tall, attractive Ruth Wilson, daughter of Rear Admiral Henry Braid Wilson, as she was portraying Diana leading the chase. He remarked to a surprised friend: "Some day that girl is going to be Mrs. Hurley." The third time he saw her, he proposed. They were...
Like Ulysses, Alexander platz is a many-charactered merry-go-round with one unheroic central figure bobbing through the realistic din. Not less topical than Ulysses, Alexander platz is more sordid, more sentimental. Herr Doblin's Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold...