Word: liam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dublin's Lower O'Connell Street there lived a highbrow little monthly called the Bell. Between its covers, budding young Irish writers appeared arm in arm with such full-blown names as George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey and Liam O'Flaherty. The big names worked for small pay; they felt it a duty to support Eire's only literary magazine...
Their book, For Men Lonely, by Wil liam Jones, Donald Mose and Richard O'Riley (Ripley Publishing Co., Hanover, N.H.; $1), came out last week. It covered twelve eastern women's colleges,† included maps of each campus and hints on how to act there: "The Vassar campus boasts everything from a nine-story Tudor dormitory to the unhappy Victorian 'Main' Building-a tender spot to loyal Vassarians, so try and keep a straight face when you see it." Other tips: ¶ Wellesley : "The major pastime is long walks . . . with a little ingenuity you can stay...
...best idea I ever heard," declared freewheeling, limber-tongued Irish Novelist Liam O'Flaherty in Paris, "was to wipe out all the women in the world. Then man could stop working entirely. There is plenty of food & drink left for all of us until...
Plain-spoken Liam O'Flaherty (The Informer, The Puritan) arrived in Paris to do some writing and maybe make a movie. Asked a curious interviewer: Is there an Irish cinema? Answered O'Flaherty: "How can there be? All of my works are banned in Ireland...
...ever assembled in the South west Pacific. Around him were hundreds of transports, shepherded by an Australian squadron and MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet, reinforced with jeep carriers from Admiral Chester Nimitz' vast armada of seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed the greatest concentration of water-borne air power in war's history-Vice Admiral Mitscher's fast carrier task groups...