Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reconstruction for which he was personally responsible - at home, in Russia, Ireland, Turkey, Palestine. Notoriously hostile to the Bolshevik regime, he castigates the man whose body is "still preserved in pickle for the curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy...
...with office furniture for the business executive, his secretary, his pilot); the great transports. Land planes, of course, were most numerous at Detroit. But notable is the number of amphibians, seaplanes and air yachts now on the market-Sikorsky, Fairchild, Keystone, Leoning, Boeing, Aeromarine, Klemm, American Marchetti, Chance Vought, Ireland, Eastman, Fokker, Great Lakes, Hamilton, Paramount, Columbia...
Rugby. International Rugby Championship (Great Britain-Ireland-France)? Won by Scotland in final match with Eng-land, at Edinburgh...
...flung down a challenge for European markets as well. Sir Percival Perry, English Ford generalissimo, opened hostilities when he offered especially to English investors shares of the $34,020,000 Ford Motor Co., Ltd. Similar offerings are being made by Ford companies on the Continent. But Great Britain & Ireland are now Ford's key sectors; his Manchester, Cork and Dagenham (capacity 200,000 cars annually; unfinished) plants are the most important overseas units; and Ford Motor Co., Ltd., is the greatest of the associated companies abroad...
...then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained him on Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year a U. S. horse has been installed as favorite. Billy Barton, by Huon...