Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dublin...
...quickly Aly took hold, and "how conscientious he was about his job." But the job still left him time to check up on his ten stud farms and stables in France and Ireland, and for visits to his Paris mansion in the Bois de Boulogne, his manor house outside Dublin, his Riviera chateau and his villas in Normandy and Switzerland. His constant companion was a slim, tawny-haired French model known professionally as Bettina...
...Chicago evening American turned up an item reporting that a missing U.S. flyer named Douglas Corrigan had been sighted off the Irish Coast. Reutlinger promptly put in transatlantic phone calls to all three of Ireland's major airports, kept all three lines open until Corrigan landed at Dublin and took the call. "Fly the wrong way?" prompted Reutlinger, mindful that Corrigan, before taking off from New York, had given Los Angeles as his destination. "I sure did," said the fellow who soon became famous as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. "Stick to that," advised Reutlinger. "It's the best story...
...Laws. In getting Tony, Princess Margaret will also inherit a bewildering set of in-laws: his mother Anne is now an Irish countess by her marriage to the sixth Earl of Rosse, vice chancellor of Dublin's Trinity College. His father, a Queen's Counsel, after the divorce from Tony's mother married Actress Carol Coombe, and only a few weeks ago took his third wife: a former airline stewardess, Jenifer Unite, who is a year older than her royal daughter...
Nobody will ever know who really started it. It may well have been an obscure vaudeville comedian, after Appomattox or after Yorktown, who first used the joke during a desperate split week in Manchester or Dublin. The joke involved someone's trying to rent a cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung...