Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Explaining to businessmen that he had meant no offense in criticizing the university for spending money to teach Gaelic) I'm for the Irish, God bless them. They should have all the education they need...
Irishmen hailed the bounding green silks of Tim Hyde with a mighty roar. Merseysiders went wild. An Irish priest shouted encouragement in Gaelic. For Workman was Irish-bred by a Cork pubkeeper, Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
...accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws men and men draw her-one pull goes with the other always...
...chosen a Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. The scholarship board called him one of the most unusual students ever to win a scholarship. Scholar Roosevelt is completing the regular four-year course at Harvard in three years, reads 13 languages (English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Icelandic, German, Gaelic, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Russian, Middle High German...