Word: landreth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HELEN LANDRETH Brooklyn...
...Author Landreth not get her Irish up, and eat hearty, now she's home. TIME said her book was "exhaustive...
...Helen Landreth's book tells how Emmet, warmly assisted by the English secret service, realized this dream of glory. The Pursuit of Robert Emmet is an exhaustive account of the events leading to the Irish insurrection of 1803, which Emmet led and in which he died...
...only recently turned up. What the records show seems chiefly pathetic to readers schooled in the calculating and brilliant revolutionary techniques of Marx and Lenin. Unlike those men, Robert Emmet lived, from boyhood to scaffold, in a world of chivalrous, humanitarian dreams-a lovable but fatal hallucination which Author Landreth indignantly blames on Emmet's father, a conventional Protestant doctor of English extraction who didn't let little Robert air his views when grownups were conversing. After several years at Dublin's Trinity College, from which he was expelled for his subversive opinions, young Emmet entered...
When the first match turned to the Navy as Middle star Landreth won from Ted Schoenberg, the meet was virtually won. In order to come through the victor the Harvard men had to count on the 121 pound class as a victory...