Word: easterlies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the executions a thousand angry demonstrators carried black flags with skull and cross bones through Dublin's streets. They tried to storm the British Representative's office. At the Post Office, bloody scene of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, they stood silent for two minutes. Sports were canceled, cinemas closed. At Mountjoy Prison, where once Mr. de Valera himself was jailed and where in 1922 the British shot Rory O'Connor, railroad engineer and onetime I. R. A. staff member, a crowd burned the Union Jack...
...crowd which still remembered vividly the martyrdom of men like Terence MacSwiney, playwright, editor, onetime Mayor of Cork, who starved himself to death in a London prison; of Sir Roger Casement, convicted of high treason and hanged in Pentonville Prison; of James Connolly, whose Easter Rebellion wounds the British cured only so that he could later be shot. Whether or not Richards and Barnes would measure up to the martyrs on this list, the fact was that the 700-year-old Irish hatred for Britain was again sorely inflamed. Best expression of Irish feeling came in a resolution...
...England's great preachers, William Orchard was trained as a Presbyterian but attained fame as a liberal in a Congregational pulpit-King's Weigh House Church in London's West End. He, who once used to keep away from church at Easter because he had his doubts about the Resurrection, became increasingly Catholic. He instituted Mass, the Reserved Sacrament, the Benediction, bells, candles and incense in his Nonconformist church. When a well-fed parishioner demanded to know why, in Mass, he had been asked to worship "a bit of bread," Dr. Orchard snapped: "Well, sir, we happen...
...Goof, a cowlicky, touching little dandelion seed of a man whom Saroyan characterized as "the naive white hope of the human race," wanted to change the world. He was thwarted wherever he went by an Easter-Parade cutaway-dummy representing conformity, and a deadpan gal named Destiny. He tried to change the world with love (represented by Minsky models in black lace panties), poetry, music, facts and statistics, common labor. He pleaded with all sorts-a dope-fiend radical, a religious drunkard, a doting old man with a beard and a penchant for poetry, followed by a girl representing...
...Church is not what was to be expected after receiving such a tremendous lesson. There are parishes where hardly 5% of the men and no more than 20% of the women go to Mass; nor is the percentage of those who go to confession and do their Easter duties much greater...