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...elections for the next Bail Eireann held in Ireland were said to be the most un-Irish in history. With few exceptions, there was no violence, no laughter on Election Day; the Emerald Isle was plunged into a strange and incomprehensible peace, which seems to have staggered the Irish themselves. It was a "model election...
...White and Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld that " - the things you will learn from the yellow an' brown They'll 'elp you a lot with the white." They seek glittering material for their revues from the life of other worlds. Their stages became hothouses where strange exotic plants, emerald, gold and scarlet, are bought across the seas for a brief blossoming. For 20 years American producing gardeners have been transplanting color, sound and movement - so great the volume of business that the original beds are wearing thin and weedy. Still, some of the imported seed has fallen into good...
...inspiration from Revelations, IV: "After this I looked . . . and behold a throne was set in heaven and One sat on the throne. And He that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." The rest of the painting treats of the Apostles and the Nativity. After the casts over the fresco were removed, the cheese was scraped off by hand...
...Anglophobe, as were most of the Irish Nationalists. He has always advocated a closer understanding between the Emerald Isle and Great Britain, and has done much to foster that spirit in his 43 years in the House...
...there does seem to be a new realization that education in the humanities is of value; nor is this confined to the East. For instance, we find in the Oregon "Daily Emerald" expression of the same feeling; "Western Universities too are seeing their dawn; and soon . . . one will no more think of 'going east for mere educational advantages than easterners now think of coming to the west." This is a fine statement; the country needs many more institutions, both ergonocentric and anthropocentric...