Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Such, expressed with infinite restraint, is the terrific indictment against an indifferent generation. A girl's lover is killed-she feels no emotion; a country is in revolt, "the best people" pay no attention. Not that they do not love their Ireland: their patriotism flowers in smart patter about their vulgar cousins, the English-"they tell the most extraordinary things-about their, husbands, their money affairs, their insides. They don't seem discouraged by not being asked. And they all seem so intimate with each other ... of course they seem very definite and practical...
...Poland. France, the cup holder, waits until the challenge round. Other pairings, as usual, have a musical comedy aspect: Mexico v. Cuba, Austria v. Czechoslovakia, Belgium v. Rumania, Denmark v. Chile, Greece v. Jugoslavia, Norway v. Hungary, Monaco v. Switzerland, Finland v. Egypt, Holland v. Portugal, Germany v. Spain, Ireland v. Italy, Sweden v. South Africa...
Capt. Francisco Jiminez-with Capt. Ignacio Iglesias, from Spain towards India. After 27 hours flying a sandstorm forced them down in Mesopotamia. Germany: Capt. Herman Koehl-in the Bremen from Ireland to Labrador. France: Capt. Dieudonné Costés-with Lieut. Commander Joseph Lebrix, on a 35,000-mile world aerial tour. Italy: Capt. Ferrarin. In Latin America the best flyers were: Venezuela, Capt. Manuel Rios, Ecuador, Capt. Luis Mantilla; Bolivia, Major Santalla Estrella...
...appropriate time to stroll into the large, nondescript, comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg, on 19th Street Washington, D. C. If a joyous, woolly dog comes bounding down the stair, call, "Bodger! Here Bodger!" After Secretary Kellogg had signed the pact in Paris, Mrs. Kellogg bought "Bodger" in Ireland, as a present for the Secretary's brother in St. Paul-but the Kelloggs like "Bodger" so well that they still occasionally borrow him. A white butler (odd in Washington) will serve tea in the library, on the ground floor, or dinner in the second floor dining room. There...
...TOWER-William Butler Yeats- Macmillan ($2.25). Of contemporary poets many are bold, curious, fascinating; few are enduring. One of the few is Yeats, who in his triumphant youth brandished the wild beauty of Ireland with rich imagery of folklore, and in his reluctant 60's writes _a slim volume on old age reduced to platonic abstractions. What shall I do with this absurdity 0 heart, 0 troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a god's tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river...