Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National (TIME, April 6). Scala's cousin Mateo Constantino and one Antonio Apicella, London hairdressers, produced a written contract and brought suit for two-thirds of Scala's prize of $1,772,720. An Irish judge granted an injunction tying up the money pending a hearing in Dublin High Court this week...
...Chapelizod, outside Dublin, complications of jaundice, dropsy and heart disease brought Death last week to a bearded, brilliant gentleman with a testy tongue, Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor General of the Irish Free State, in his 76th year. Three years ago failing health made him resign the Governor-Generalship. Fortnight ago his condition became critical, relatives were summoned. Tim Healy (nobody ever called him anything else) died in the night...
...loyal British citizen. At the age of 14 he had taught himself shorthand. At 17 he made his way to England, worked as a railway clerk, a reporter. He first attracted attention by the brilliance of the political articles which he sent to his uncle's Dublin paper, The Nation...
...send through the mails news accounts of lotteries. This year the Irish Sweepstakes were world's largest, outrunning even the famed Calcutta Sweeps on the British Derby. Irish sweepstake tickets were peddled in the U. S. by race track bookies or by salesmen who brought them over from Dublin in books of twelve at $2.50 each, the salesman receiving two tickets free from each book sold...
...sacred thirst pledge" of this Methodist campaign is, oddly, not Methodist but Roman Catholic, the invention of Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), an Irish Capuchin friar whose statue adorns the main thoroughfare of Dublin in the immediate vicinity of one of that city's most popular bars.* Father Mathew, after working for 24 years in Cork, founding schools, opening a cemetery and engaging in rescue work during the cholera epidemic of 1832, signed the pledge when he was 48 and crusaded all over Ireland on behalf of teetotalism. His pledge, as adopted by the Methodists, reads...