Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
Meharry College goes back to a wandering Irishman who raised five sons as Methodists. Prosperous for their time (post-Civil War period), they gave their joint surplus of $30,000 to the Methodist Episcopal Church for a Christian college to train colored youths in medicine. The church founded the college at Nashville. First head and instructor was Dr. George W. Hubbard, onetime Union Army private who had hastily studied medicine. His helper was Dr. W. G. Snead, onetime Confederate Army surgeon. Present president of Irish-founded Meharry is Dr. John J. Mullowney, white...
...companion ; and, though freighted by the corpse in a wolf-country, he battles his way back to the girl he loves, Hannah O'Molloy. They marry and there is a child. But the Frenchman finds his culture and cleanliness offended by her narrowness and rusticity. Then an Irishman elopes with Hannah. The Frenchman pursues them into the wilderness, is glad to find death instead...
Michael MacWhite, famed "Frenchified Fighting Irishman'' was appointed to be Irish Free State Minister at Washington...
...thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles on her Irishman's long upper lip, will be on her feet, ready to hunt...