Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minority in Northern Ireland. The most ardent partisans of Irish rebellion are to be found in the U. S., where a great many of the Catholic clergy are of Irish origin. In Manhattan last month, I.R.A. clubs joined other Irish groups in a "monster commemoration" of Ireland's Easter Week Rebellion of 1916. As noted by the Brooklyn Tablet (Catholic), the meeting's agenda included a vote in "support of the present campaign of the I.R.A. in England." None at the meeting feared excommunication...
...Terriers have profiled from a week's tour of the south during Easter vacation and should be able to give the Crimson a real test. Captain Jack Barr, Henry Thompson, Age Cordingly, and Bob, Graves are the four veterans in Harvard's lineup, while Lou Roewer and Waddy Dickerman will make their first Varsity appearances in the five and six positions...
...which made out no case for giving him, any more than Pius XI, such a special designation. Last week the Holy Father spent his first Holy Week in office, a week made notable by the fact that his neighbor Benito Mussolini chose Good Friday to invade Albania. On Easter Sunday Pius XII made a radio address to the world: "There can be no peace so long as treaties which have been solemnly sanctioned have lost that security value which constitutes the foundation for reciprocal trust...
Three other of Pan-Am's 314s were in service this week, two on the Pacific run, the third on the New York-Bermuda route, operated by Pan-Am alone since the crash of Imperial Airways' Cavalier (TIME, Jan. 30). The Easter rush of Bermuda vacationers set an airline record: the Bermuda Clipper carried 60 passengers on each of three north-bound trips...
...Last week John Barbirolli, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who is not generally considered a magician so far as programs are concerned, pulled an exciting Easter rabbit out of his hat. Assisted by the young, well-trained Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. J., the Philharmonic gave Manhattan an earful of Gioachino Antonio Rossini's rare Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which is neither little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini...