Word: gael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kilts. Defense Headquarters cited authorities. The cut of a woman's kilt, it pointed out, must "for anatomical reasons" be different from a man's; it must be longer. The above-the-knee kilt for women was "a travesty of the male attire ... an affront to the Gael." The C.W.A.C. pipers would have to wear regulation drab khaki uniforms-at least until a more decorous, calf-length kilt could be designed...
...Gael. In Seattle, Judge John Neergaard suspended sentence on all Irish drunks appearing before him as an aftermath of St. Patrick's Day, for good measure included in his amnesty a Mexican named Francisco Gallagher...
What kind of an Irishman was that, and him a Sinn Feiner, always a lep ahead of the murdering Black & Tans in the days of "The Trouble?" What kind was it but himself. General Richard Mulcahy, 57, president of the opposition Fine Gael (United Ireland) Party in the Dail Eireann. And what did he say, the brave boyo? To his party convention in Dublin Mulcahy said...
...Foully, unfairly, in secret and undemocratically this decision has been taken and hurled at Parliament and the people," roared choleric Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, leader of Fine Gael, the principal opposition. Retorted De Valera, out to get a solid majority for his Fianna Fail: "I have no apology to offer. A minority government has responsibility but not power...
William Thomas Cosgrave, wild-haired, mild-eyed little leader of Eire's muted opposition party (the Fine Gael), retired. Successively a bar-boy, Sinn Feiner (he was sentenced to death, later pardoned for his part in 1916's Easter Rebellion) and Eire President (1922-32), 63-year-old Cosgrave is reported to have been ailing for eight years...