Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it all happened about 40 years ago, Gogarty remembers everything as if it were last night. The reader's problem is whether to admire most Gogarty's memory or his imagination. "An Irishman," says Gogarty, "believes best in what he knows to be untrue...
Although his grandfather migrated to Missouri some 100 years ago, Publisher Griffin is a professional Irishman. Nine months of the year he is a loyal Tammany man; in summer he usually goes to Ireland and makes speeches on trade, which the Hearstpapers dutifully report. What Ireland needs most, after independence, William Griffin thinks, is a chain of modern hotels. Occasionally Publisher Griffin starts a movement to draft William Griffin for mayor (1937) or Senator...
This week, for the first time, a writer had attempted to make articulate this wordless world of sleep. The writer is James Joyce; the book, Finnegans Wake-final title of his long-heralded Work in Progress. In his 57 years this erudite and fanciful Irishman, from homes in exile all over Europe, has written two books that have influenced the work of his contemporaries more than any others of his time: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the best of innumerable novels picturing an artist's struggle with his environment; Ulysses, considered baffling and obscure...
...observer of his life and works can fail to note that James Joyce is a typical Irishman. Born in Dublin, he remains as Irish in Paris or Trieste as he was in the city of his birth. His friends believe that nothing short of a European war could drive him back to the "little brown bog" and the haunting Liffey...
...shillings rained down on H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli, which last year lost by a mere neck to Battleship. By race time the odds on Royal Danieli had been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire's Workman, last year's tired third. Workman stood at 100-8, just a shade better liked than Royal Mail, 100-7, the only former winner in the field. A tempting long shot was Capt. L. E. Scott Briggs's MacMoffat...