Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people in Alaska bought $42,000,000 of U. S. products-more than Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, Portugal or Spain, all countries with much greater population, and only slightly less than Russia and Brazil...
...last relatives carried off Caroline and William to Ireland, where everybody said "how fond Lady Caroline seemed of her husband." "When they say that to me," said her mother, "I want to bellow...
...Liverpool Canal was demolished, the front of a Liverpool post office blasted into the street before the eyes of watching police, and a nearby street mailbox set afire. Thus ended the worst day of terrorism since the Irish Republican Army which claims to be the only legal Government of Ireland declared "war" on Great Britain last January. The casus belli was the British refusal to recognize a united Ireland and withdraw troops from the British-controlled six northern counties...
...Belair stallions and broodmares are kept at Arthur Hancock's Paris, Ky. farm (four or five broodmares are kept in Ireland to be bred to Irish and English stallions). Every winter* Breeder Woodward personally selects the parents of the next year's crop of foals (usually about 25). At weaning time (six months), the foals are transferred to Collington. There they remain until they are yearlings...
Sean O'Casey is the author of Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, many another realistically wild Irish play about the lives of Ireland's poor. Less successful is this "autobiography," which covers only the first twelve years of his life. Gist: "Well, he'd learned poethry and had kissed a girl ... if he hadn' gone into the house, he had knocked at the door...