Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film farce called The Captain's Table, which chronicled the social perils of a luxury-liner captain adrift in a sea of calculating female passengers. Last week all England was agog over a real-life-setting of The Captain's Table. The captain: a tall, debonair Irishman named James D. Armstrong, master of the 28,000-ton Cunard liner Britannic, The plot: he had been royally sacked by Britain's staid, prosperous Cunard Steamship Co. just a few months before he was due to become master of the Queen Mary, and eventually commodore of the line...
...consular service, had been caught after being put ashore on a wild stretch of the Irish coast by a German U-boat on Good Friday, 1916, when an Irish rebellion was in the making. What seemed to the British government a clear case of treason was to many an Irishman patriotism...
...slender, well-tailored Irishman last week awakened painful memories in Britain. In the London Sunday Times, 62-year-old Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, veteran (37 years) career diplomat and sometime (1953-57) Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office, began publication of excerpts from his forthcoming book, The Inner Circle. The first: an eyewitness account of the momentous meeting of the European powers at Munich in September 1938. Kirkpatrick was then first secretary of the British embassy in Berlin, and delegated to help Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain deal with Hitler...
...controversy over Kennedy reminds me of the Irishman, weary of the long feud between Catholics and Protestants in his country, who cried, "Would that all Irishmen were atheists so that we could live together like Christians...
...gone to within 97 miles of the South Pole. Shackleton had one trouble: he was a towering egotist. As an apprentice in the British merchant navy, he was termed "the most pigheaded, obstinate boy I have ever come across" by his first skipper. Born a middle-class Irishman, he burned to force his way to the top of Britain's upper crust-and chose the polar route for the expedition...