Word: macdermott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took her to a welfare home to await a hearing. Lord John Clarke MacDermott, Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, declaring her a ward of the court, ordered that she attend only regular Presbyterian Church services, address no public meetings. As for her Catholic parents, they would have to accept their Protestant daughter in what MacDermott called his "experiment in toleration...
...into her books. Despite her demurrers, the game of "spot-the-model" goes on. Experts in this game can tell that Taub in The Oasis is really the editor of a certain highbrow magazine; another highbrow editor (his journal is now defunct) won his McCarthy Purple Heart as Macdougal Macdermott in the same book, but both remain good and gallant friends of their satirist...