Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to make a decent Irishman gag. There she sat, "the ould bitch," on the lawn of Leinster House itself, right in front of the main entrance to the Dail; and there she had been sitting for 41 years. Even worse than the statue of Victoria was the tablet underneath, inscribed from the old Queen's loyal "Irish subjects...
...commandant, Colonel Frank Howley-a rock-jawed Irishman-issued a bold appeal: "Berliners, show your courage . . . There are evil forces at work . . . whose sworn and ordered mission is to create chaos . . . The people of Berlin will not be permitted to starve." Unfortunately, Howley could not tell them exactly how they would be fed. Western Berlin depends for the most part on 2,000 tons of food a day brought in by rail from Bizonia, 100 miles away-more than could be supplied by the cargo planes which the U.S. and Britain were able to press into immediate service last week...
Jimmy's father, a Boston Irishman, wanted his son to become a plumber. ("I can still fix a toilet," says Jimmy.) Instead, he got what he thought was a wonderful job as office boy at the Boston Opera House: "There must have been 50 pianos!" With 50 pianos to tinkle on, he began making up his own tunes...
...imperfect and crude, compared with what it will be, but it is a modern miracle. The process of sending electronic pictures through the air and reassembling them in the living room is one of the great achievements of modern science. It all began in 1873 with a sharp-eared Irishman and a leprechaun sunbeam...
Handsome Captain Roy Alexander Farran had often been close to death. The son of an Irishman who had served in India. he went to Sandhurst and became one of the heroes of World War II. He fought with Wavell in the desert, went along on the ill-fated British expedition in Greece, saw his comrades blown to bits, was wounded and captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked...