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...destruction." About an hour later, "the waters of the Tagus rocked and rose menacingly, and then poured in three great towering waves over its banks." King Joseé moved into an encampment under canvas outside the city. There were penitential processions and prayers. A few looters (including five Irishmen) were executed. The quake destroyed a great many of the city's 40-odd churches and 90 convents, as well as the "best fish market in the world." London and Hamburg sent food, building materials and money, but the principal aftereffect of the Lisbon shock was sermonizing...
...Sitwell to Lady Astor, and of course Wells met Wells. The British were eager to see in Main Street support for the comforting conviction that Americans, though rich, were a pretty uncouth lot. So Lewis was warmly received, but not all appreciated his japeries. When he met some prominent Irishmen, his notion of humor was to sing a funny song about Christ walking on the water. Lewis insisted on doing imitations at dinner, and they went on too long. He even fancied he resembled Bernard Shaw and bought a wig at Clarkson's", the theatrical wigmaker, to improve...
...months ago, after the last Earl had died, his heir, Mrs. Beatrice Grosvenor, was forced to put 8,500 acres of the 9,000-acre estate up for sale so that she could pay off a ?70,000 ($196,000) inheritance tax. But she could find no buyer. Irishmen in Dublin, afraid that Killarney would fall into unsympathetic hands, started a fund-raising campaign, could raise only ?10,000. In the U.S., sharing similar fear, the Bartenders Association of Boston voted $1,000 (?357) for a "Save Killarney" fund-also not enough...
...Lady Says No," but the writer likes best his second play, "The Moon in Yellow River." This summer he hopes to complete another drama with a background of the Irish Revolution. Like many Irish playwrights, Johnston has a superstition which prevents talk about a play not yet published. "Irishmen feel if you talk too much about a play, there's a fair chance it will never see print," he explains...
...Manchester Guardian was reminded of a parallel: "In 1916 we shot the leaders of the Easter Rebellion. By 1921 more Irishmen than ever were fighting us in the name of Pearse and Connolly, and the resentment which our action aroused has not died away...