Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearts thereby of so many fond and kind parents, that I am especially anxious you should not sanction or encourage them. "Since I began this I have heard of the great wish entertained that you should receive the Order of St. Patrick and that you should be installed in Dublin as a Knight. I shall have much pleasure in giving you the order, and that your going over to Dublin to be installed there should be the occasion for your going there, and not the races, which should only come in as an incident. ..." Edward's Reply: "My dear...
After taking his degrees at Caius College, Cambridge, Dr. Conway became a fellow of that College. Later he was appointed as classical lecturer at Newnham College, and from 1893 to 1903 was professor of Latin at University College Cardiff. He has received honorary degrees from the universities of Dublin and Padua, and in 1918 was made a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Conway is at present Governor of the British Institute of Florence, and an external Examiner in Latin to the University of Durham...
...lawyer, Morgan J. O'Brien, some-time Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (N. Y.), father of able Manhattan lawyer Kenneth O'Brien, beamed with satisfaction at the thought that the eldest of his four sons, Morgan J. Jr., is a director of the new Dublin bank...
...year. Moreover it is a responsible position?Mayor of a great municipality. Its greatness can be measured in a number of ways: in area 314.75 square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption...
...floods laid thousands of acres of land under water to the hedge tops. In England the Thames overflowed disastrously at Windsor and notably throughout its entire valley. A cyclone passed over Western Scotland, and the Clyde overflowed at Glasgow. Only a single telegraph line was working out of Dublin, and at London, Edinburgh and Glasgow all overhead telephone lines were down. The cross-channel packets were buffeted by 40-foot waves...