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...books, bales of papers, crates of furniture, cases of knicknacks. Also sent to the Capital was a bulletproof broadcasting lectern donated by CBS to protect him from thighs to shoulders. Mrs. Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor, had been engaged as White House housekeeper and her husband, a lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan had been picked to take charge of the White House telephone switchboard. Mr. Roosevelt was "delighted" with...
...attitude disgusts her; she leaves them together, saying: "I shall not find God where men are talking about women." When she comes on Voltaire cultivating his garden she is persuaded that that is the best way of looking for God, and joins him. One day she finds a tall Irishman digging away too. Voltaire suggests they would make a fine pair, so she and Shaw marry, go on digging, raise a brood of coffee-colored children...
...than it is to the U. S. The typical Irish writer wears his English with a difference. Racial bias toward tragic fancy, racial prejudice against successful fact give the Irish writer a peculiar angle on even plain Saxon themes. Author Stuart's theme is patriotism-which to an Irishman is partly like politics and partly like being in love. His tale, which starts realistically enough and wanders through dirty Dublin streets, ends toward the stars...
...Author. Like many a good Irishman, Francis Stuart happened to be somewhere else when he was born-in his case, Australia. His Ulster-Unionist (anti-Free State) parents sent him carefully to Rugby, England's heartiest school. The inevitable Irish upshot was that Francis Stuart landed in a Dublin jail as a rioting Irish Republican. Against the wishes of both families he ran away with Iseult, niece of famed, beauteous Patriot Maud Gonne MacBride, whose husband had been executed in the 1916 rising. Now he lives in Glendalough (Dublin suburb), flies a plane, raises chickens, tries to find...
...Author! We want the author!" cried the Abbey Players' audience. They got him. As the curtain fell on his one-act play, famed William Butler Yeats, 67, a portly, grey-haired gentleman, stepped upon the stage. Then one great Irishman spoke briefly about another. The spirit of Swift, Poet-Senator Yeats explained, still broods over the Emerald Isle. The tragedy and wisdom of Swift permeate, he feels, the Irish character. That was what he had tried to get at in his play. He thanked one & all for their attention, left the theatre as the curtain rose on Synge...