Word: gaelicism
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...Grossdeutscher Rundfunk so that propaganda of the New Order can flow smoothly out of Berlin. Each week the Nazis spray Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium and Bulgaria with 187 network newscasts, 363 pep talks in German. To the rest of the world, in 31 other languages (including Arabic, Frisian, Gaelic and Esperanto) they air a weekly total of 1,266 news bulletins, 303 Goebbelsian reports...
...councillor immediately took possession of the bird by the ancient and honorable Gaelic method of placing his hat on its head and mattering odd incantations. "Now its mine," he announced...
Died. Frederick Robert Higgins, 44, dark, Gaelic-loving Irish poet (Salt Air, Arable Holdings), since 1935 managing director of Dublin's great Abbey Theatre; in Dublin. On a Manhattan visit three years ago, Poet Higgins "found the stage in New York pitiful, contemptible-and what is worse, anemic...
...criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
...whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood, a thatched roof supported by rows, of wooden posts, a long living room with a fireplace and aisles off the side for sleeping...