Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dollars for the cargo. He held out for more, could not get it unloaded. He finally had to take $2,500 for his half-rotten produce. The Giovannis were ruined. So they opened a furniture store with Mme. Giovanni's belongings. As it was beginning to prosper, an Irishman and friend appeared, wanted to see Mme. Giovanni, and laughed loudly when Giovanni told them that the lady was his wife. "Behold the rascal," they cried, "who allows himself to have a wife entirely to himself in San Francisco!", Then one put his hand on his revolver and said...
...Notre Dame did not want him, Chicago did. The pain of being ousted from a Catholic institution was alleviated last week for lame, earnest Catholic Philosopher Francis Elmer McMahon (TIME, Nov. 22): the fighting Irishman who had attacked Dictator Francisco Franco and praised Russia's war record landed a new job on the faculty of Robert Maynard Hutchins' University of Chicago. This would hardly relieve the pain of Notre Dame's president, Father Hugh O'Donnell. He got protests against his dismissal of McMahon from 29 Notre Dame facultymen, the Florida Catholic and other diocesan papers...
Against Fatigue. The slow Allied advance led one officer to grumble: "We will not get back in time to see our grandchildren." But morale is very good. Colonel Hamilton told the story of a little red-headed private, an Irishman, who crawled within 15 yards of a German tank, knocked it out with his bazooka...
...whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look as if people really had lived in them. The direction (by skilled Oldtimer William K. Howard), the acting, the production are fluent, alert and reciprocal...
...Minister Charles Gavan Power is a wild Quebec Irishman who has made a zooming success of Canada's air training scheme, and does not know how good...