Word: lawlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOHN G. LAWLOR...
...Chosen (written & produced by Nora Lawlor) mainly concerns five novice nuns. During the course of three acts, one succumbs to ill health, one goes out of her mind, one gets killed in a storm and two decide that the cloistered life is not for them. Except in the U. S. S. R., a play about a religious institution which does not stultify its material with sanctimoniousness stands a good chance of being suppressed. Few Are Chosen will never be suppressed...
...cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through the offices of Citizen Smith...
...yard breast stroke--Won by Wolfson (B); second, Lawlor (B); third, Gross (A). Time...
...Irishman named Casey, disgusted because there were no courts in the U. S., built one in Brooklyn in 1885; in 1887 he won,11-to-6, against the Irish champion, John Lawlor, a best-of-21-game series for the world's championship and a $1,000 sidebet. One-wall handball started in 1900. Cheaper, more convenient and less subtle, it is more popular in the East than the older game. Squash handball, played with squash rackets on a handball court, is popular in California. For persons too lazy or slow to be good at singles, which can cause...