Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Justice Holmes the decision was one which had to be overturned. Years later, when his days were running down, he told his promising secretary-protege, a handsome, huge-headed young Rhode Island Irishman named Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, to take up the task. Corcoran vowed, when he entered the Government in 1932, never to leave Washington until the case had been overruled. The years passed, the courts and Congress nibbled away-by last week little was left but to have a decision specifically overruling the 1918 case...
Sirs: The man who wrote of Churchill, Man of the Vear, in the Jan. 6 issue of TIME, is also a great master of words. As an Irishman, having long heard that England could fight to the last Irishman, I must now say that it can also fight to the last Englishman. A champion is never an accident-for long-said Frank Moran to me-one of the great bruisers of his era. I fully realize that there are those who say that Churchill represents a dying social system. If that is true, he still knows how to hold...
...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
George Gibson introduced the new member to the 32 members of T. U. C.'s General Council with wisecracks. Example: "This is Tom O'Brien, an Irishman masquerading as a Welshman." When the Queen's ear caught the accent of Miner Will Lawther she chimed in: "What part of the north do you come from...
...American narrator identifies the bird now with the husband, now with the wife, shows it as the intense embodiment of captive freedom, of the artist's urge, of love. By the time the day is over, the mutual crucifixion of the Irish marriage is thoroughly clear; the Irishman has made two abject, ambiguous attempts at murder; and Glenway Wescott has wrung a little more than the last drop of slantwise symbolism from the actions and the lore of the bird...