Word: erine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What with the bomb planting, the brave manifestoes and the likes of the Sinn Fein gathering in the hills, these are times when an Irishman in England could do with a word or two first-hand from the old country. But the voice of Erin, Radio-Eireann, from its 100-kilowatt transmitter in Athlone, is having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale...
...choice for Rhett Butler to be cinema's No. 1 buckaroo-bold, woman-handling Actor Clark Gable. But the people's choice for Scarlett O'Hara was far from unanimous. It seemed to call for a blend of gusty Tallulah Bankhead, smoldering Miriam Hopkins, redheaded Erin O'Brien-Moore, flashing Paulette Goddard. For Scarlett, Producer Selznick scanned one after another of the public's suggestions, considered as well young Actresses Margaret Tallichet and Arlene Whalen, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, nee Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus (his backer's wife). On his problems Producer Selznick...
...United Kingdom and the Free State have been engaged in a bitter tariff war, each deliberately rigging its schedules to hurt the other as much as possible. Another old sore is Free State resentment at the United Kingdom's continuing to maintain British harbor defenses, "on Erin's sacred...
...policemen, politicians and College biddies are all that undergraduates can think of when they hear a reference to Ireland, they have some excuse for their ignorance. For it is a sad fact that Harvard offers no broad, general course dealing directly with either the history or letters of Erin...
...student. Lacking the foresight of Eliot, department heads have not seen that in order to live in modern America a background of Irish culture or some index to Irish psychology is necessary. As a result, men leave Harvard unprepared for their daily contacts with the men of Erin...