Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...senior, she pampered him with parties, and medicines, and peacocks screeching on the terrace; and in his gratitude Disraeli forgot her social gaucheries, forgave her boast that Greek sculpture paled before "my Dizzy in his bath." Meanwhile Mrs. Gladstone was relieving her lord that he might deal with Ireland and Egypt and the Liberal Party while she answered lesser demands: "Could you order some toothbrushes cheap for the Orphanage . . . grapes for Mrs. Bagshawe . . . Bible prints . . . schoolroom easels...
Sapeloe is one of the southern chain of American sea-islands mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the loth century as part of Huitramanaland or Great Ireland. Portuguese sailors supplied data for a map which showed the islands in 1502. The Spanish arrived in 1512 and called the broad-beached land they found the "Golden Islands." It was from one of their missions, San José de Zapalo, that Sapeloe's name is derived...
...honorary President of the American Red Cross, President Coolidge appointed members to its Central Committee-to continue as chairman, John Barton Payne; to represent the State Department, Undersecretary Mills; War, Surgeon-General Ireland; Navy, Captain Charles Edward Riggs; Justice, Solicitor-General Mitchell...
England has no more right in India than she has in Ireland, or Egypt, or in South Africa, and with the help of God she will one day yet be forcibly ejected from them...
Three thousand miles is the ship or train distance between San Diego, Calif., and Guayaquil, Ecuador (where President-Elect Hoover was last week, see p. 10), between Manhattan and Queenstown, Ireland, between Washington and San Francisco. Trains or ships join those traveled places in a few days. Getting to the trackless Poles takes months...