Word: hibernians
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...picture magazine was a 705,000 sellout, and the present 1,700,000 circulation came in generous leaps & bounds as the monthly became a fortnightly. But Look did not decide to accept advertising until three months ago when the Brothers Cowles took Ned Doyle, a wiry, 34-year-old Hibernian, from the eastern advertising managership of Cosmopolitan. Mr. Doyle was given 13 solicitors and sent to sell space, warned not to accept hard liquor, beer or objectionable patent medicine...
...newshawks Hibernian Sweeney later explained: "I recall that it was during King George's reign that the Black & Tans invaded Ireland. . . . Many of my relatives were among the victims of that outrage. ... I had nothing against the King personally, but he represented a symbol not in harmony with our democracy. I intend to protest against the whole thing...
...world's four great theatre organizations* arrived in Manhattan last week for a month's stay before touring the U.S. Far less numerous than New York's Jews but no less demonstrative, the city's Irish gave the Abbey Theatre players from Dublin a warm Hibernian welcome. Drama lovers in general were glad to have the troupe back after a two-year absence, but the first offering, Sean O'Casey's The Plough & the Stars, was strictly for Irish ears. Its brogue was so thick that the play remained practically unintelligible to non-wearers...
...damp with manly sentiment and the hero ("a man amongst men, simple men, kindly men, men who could be terrible, men who used strong language as a matter of course, but always men who could never hide their great hearts") is a little wearing. But the comicalities of Hibernian dialect cover a multitude of insincerities: " 'It is given up to me,' said Jamesy complacently, 'to be the best teller of a ghost story in all Kerry. Paddy Joe Long is good, an' Rogue McCoy, me curate, is damn' good, but give me two pints...
...House of Representatives and the Judiciary subcommittee of the Senate to consider duplicate bills which would permit physicians, hospitals & clinics complete freedom to learn about contraceptives. Fortnight ago the House committee ?at the insistence of Massachusetts' Representative John M. McCormack (Knight of Columbus, Elk, Moose, Forester, Hibernian) ? pigeonholed Mrs. Sanger's bill. Her angry clarion stirred Birth Controllers throughout the land to telegraph their displeasure to their Congressmen last week, while the Senate committee was diffidently hearing other of her supporters. After listening to advocates of the movement the Senators postponed the hearings a week...