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...Irishman. They were shaking hands, and at a yank from Gold Teeth, Freckles crossed the border. "Come over to New Jersey," grinned Freckles, returning the yank. "I'll show you a good state!" The scene was 100 feet under the oozy bottom of the Hudson River and the Irishmen were Governors Smith of New York and Moore of New Jersey, "two outstanding Wets in a dry spot." They had on their tops hats and morning coats, for they were met- where a line of blue mosaic was worked in the tiled wall to mark midstream-in the Holland* vehicular...
...York dwelt chiefly upon the temperamental and tribal differences of the morose Mohammedan Moros who live in those places and the Christian Filipinos who control the present government at Manila; upon the wisdom and justice of treating these immiscible citizens as the British treated the two strains of Irishmen. (TIME, June...
...Real name, MacMullen. Born 37 years ago in Ulster, he attended Cambridge University, and now serves the British Crown in the Ministry of Labor. One of the quietest Irishmen alive, he is known to few people. Acquaintances have marked him as interesting, keen, observant. Mrs. Mac-Mullen is better known as Actress Mary Sumner...
...team, they relieved one another periodically. There was Reggie McNamara, staunch veteran of uncountable races, pedaling warily, knowing that the road was a long one. Experienced Eddie Madden and Bobby Walthour, too. let the young up-and-comers snatch the first kudos. There were Dutchmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Poles, Irishmen and Jews, with names like Lacquehay, Georgetti, Goosens, Stockelynch, Keller, Kockler, Golle, Meithe, Bello, Wambst...
...year. Moreover it is a responsible position?Mayor of a great municipality. Its greatness can be measured in a number of ways: in area 314.75 square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption...