Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People began to bet instead on Mr Jinks, a grey horse named by Ireland's President Cosgrave, with ancestry dating to 1774 and in whose long lineage there always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will...
Charles Knox, founder of Knox Hats, came to the U. S. from Ireland in 1830, aged 12. The New York bound ship in which he crossed the Atlantic had been blown far out of its course and finally made port at Wilmington, Del., leaving Charles, 12, and his sister Margaret, 10, stranded 118 miles from their parents in Manhattan. "How are you going to get to New York?" asked the ship captain, who wanted to put Margaret in some Wilmington household and ship Charles as a cabin boy. "We'll walk," said Charles, and they did, in two weeks...
John Francis Curry arrived from Ireland on Manhattan's west side as a babe in arms 55 years ago. His father was a cattle dealer. He went to work as a messenger boy, ran errands for prominent men. In those days, to be prominent was to be a politician. Young Curry became a politician, too; rose to be a leader in the Fifth District. He was athletic (hurdles, leaping). He was affable and discreet. He early learned that the foundation of popularity in a crowded community is doing little kindnesses for many people. When he challenged the authority...
...three million people. He played them off against each other so that they were often seeking England's aid. He launched a new church and designed a wagon to grind corn while it rolled along. He built up the navy, encouraged business, absorbed Wales, pacified (for a few moments) Ireland, weakened hostile Scotland, played the flute, started a book, jousted in the tiltyard, began the great English age that was to be called Elizabethan...
...Author was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1883; reached the U. S. in 1900; married Signe Toksvig of Denmark; did some law work in New York, editorial writing in Chicago, made the Friday Literary Review of the Chicago Evening Post the best thing of its kind in the Midwest; went to The New Republic to do books, resigned in 1922 to write books of his own?several historical-sociological works, one so-so novel (That Nice Young Couple), and now Henry the Eighth. He has found his work. Royalties on more than 100,000 copies of Henry are beginning to pour...