Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greying Spencer Tracy, not equipped with a memorial role, gives no more than a mediocre presentation of his copy-righted role as a Gaelic and crusading, if mixed-up, newspaperman...
When the counting ended, the Taoiseach (Gaelic for Prime Minister; pronounced tee shock) and his Fianna Fail had a clear margin of 14 seats in the Dail instead of a deficit of four. Even if all other parties voted solidly against him, De Valera could win on any foreseeable issue. Now he had what he had demanded: power to match his responsibility...
...Duke of Argyll, 72-year-old, 20-titled, elf-seeing, Gaelic-speaking laird of Inveraray, Scotland, received in absentia a court admonition (public reproof carrying no fine or sentence). The trouble started when 79-year-old Town Clerk Robert Sutherland Corrigall stopped by with some Department of Health recommendations for cleaning up the ducal estate. His crusty Lordship listened carefully, politely shook hands, then gave his caller a good caning followed by an offer to throw him in nearby Loch Fyne. The Duke refused to appear in court, sent word that, after seven weeks of reflection, he had apologized...
...Michael Donnellan's Farmers Party won 14 seats, a gain of twelve. The Farmers and their gaunt, roughly garbed, ex-Gaelic-football-star boss scored the surprise of the election...
Schrödinger has a way with him. His soft, cheerful speech, his whimsical smile are engaging. And Dubliners are proud to have a Nobel prizewinner living among them.† But what especially appeals to the Irish is Schrödinger's study of Gaelic, Irish music and Celtic design, his hobby of making tiny doll-house furniture with textiles woven on a midget Irish loom-and, above all, his preference for a professorship at the Dublin Advanced Studies Institute to one at Oxford...