Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exit Dunlop. While Scotland's John Dunlop first thought of putting his pneumatic tires on bicycles, it took an Irishman to gaze into the spinning wheels and see a fortune. Dublin Paper Merchant Harvey Du Cros, father of three famed bicycle racers, needed only to see his sons beaten by a man on Dunlop tires before he set to work. He promptly organized a tire company, persuaded Dunlop to join him, and with classic forethought predicted in his prospectus: "The pneumatic tyre will be almost indispensable for ladies and persons with delicate nerves...
...lick for America." Welker could see no profit in restraining Joe's methods, "under a nicey-nicey code of ethics." Welker was especially incensed at Flanders' charge that McCarthy had contempt for his fellow men. Roared Welker: "No one can tell me that Irishman would not give the shirt off his back to anyone who needed it-except a dirty, lying, stinking Communist." His conclusion: "I am not going to censure ... a Senator who is carrying the ball alone in a crusade to save Amer ica, if he may have said something in an ill-tempered vein...
...final count, De Valera was defeated largely on the issue of the price of a pint of beer. "Surely," he said to one heckling voter in Limerick, "there is more in the world than the pint." But to many an Irishman, wearied by years of heavy taxation and high prices, unimpressed by the government's high-sounding plans to "harness the winds and the tides" in expensive power projects, the i s. 3 d. pint of beer was the whole story. Since De Valera was responsible for it, De Valera must...
Songs and Ballads of America's Wars (Frank Warner; Elektra). An informal collection of old pulse-bumpers, many of them all but forgotten. They range from Felix the Soldier, a delightfully wry recollection of the French and Indian War by a conscript Irishman, to such truculent songs of the Confederacy as The Bonnie Blue Flag and The Old Unreconstructed...
...shocked to see Senator McCarthy's face on the cover of the March 8 issue. This man is not news! . . . Let this blatherskite of an Irishman sputter and fume himself into oblivion...