Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 32, and Elizabeth Marvin, 32. public-school teacher; on the first anniversary of his take-off for Ireland; in San Antonio...
...Edinburgh court refused to deal with the divorce suit of the U. S.-born Duchess of Leinster. Reason: her husband, Edward Fitz-Gerald, Premier Duke, Marquess & Earl of Ireland, was not domiciled in Scotland. To prove it the court quoted from his earlier declaration: "My departure from Scotland has been really to suit my wife. She one said she could not live with blackfaced sheep and lochs and I saw a certain amount of truth in that...
...Eshleman was unluckier than Douglas Corrigan, whose "wrong-way" flight to Ireland brought him Hollywood riches, luckier than Fliers Thomas Smith, Charles Backman, whose unauthorized transatlantic flights this spring in bantam, low-powered planes carried them into limbo...
...books of verse and his witty reminiscences of Ireland's literary great, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street, Gogarty gave his version of Gogarty. In Tumbling in the Hay, his thinly fictionized reminiscences of medical-student days at Trinity College, he scores with accustomed ease on witty professors, on pals in saloons, dissecting rooms, brothels...
...Zionist conference in London for International News Service and made her a newspaperwoman. To her new career she brought the same mixture of romanticism and vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed $500 from Sigmund Freud to go to Warsaw and covered the Pilsudski revolution in evening dress. She was almost shot in Bulgaria. In Vienna she established a salon of sorts and entertained...