Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Stephens was born in a Dublin slum, worked his way through night school, finally got to be a solicitor's typist at $5 a week. Of those times he once said: "I thought in those days I'd be a poet. All day I used to sit and think about big words. By big I mean fine high-sounding words like 'honor' and 'noble' and 'courage,' and I spent most of my time scribbling them down." Later, as a recognized poet on a lecture tour in California, he was more explicit...
...Church of Ireland, an offshoot of the Church of England, has about 500,000 members, owns such famous institutions as Christ Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral in Roman Catholic Dublin...
Died. Sara Allgood, 66, for a quarter-century one of Dublin's Abbey Players (Juno and the Pay cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest and humblest," she recalled) of the Irish National Theatre Society, a group of patriotic enthusiasts (including Padraic Colum, George Russell, William Butler Yeats) who founded the Abbey Theatre and sparked the Irish Revival. A cinemactress on & off since 1929 (Blackmail, the first British talking picture), she brightened dozens...
From what they found to be normal in practice, Master, Dublin and Marks suggest these ranges as normal...
Release from worry is the first thing prescribed by most doctors for patients with high blood pressure. The tables of Master, Dublin and Marks may be just the thing to help such patients stop worrying-or worry less...