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Word: feiners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night long no one on North America saw tail or strut of Douglas Corrigan. Then, some 27 hours later, an American plane was spotted streaking past Belfast like a Sinn Feiner ducking the Black and Tans. It was Corrigan, all right, and an hour later he fluttered down at Baldonnel Airport near Dublin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Stunt | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...delegates left Ottawa for the official opening of the Welland Ship Canal between Lakes Erie & Ontario police heard of a plot to assassinate James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type -a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"-a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Canada's Cards | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

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