Search Details

Word: macsweeney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

City, state and federal officials say that rising demand and spiraling maintenance costs have outpaced public funding. "The public effort has been strong, but whether it has been enough--that's the question," says Charles MacSweeney, information director for the state Department of Communities and Development...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: City Public Housing | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

Down to Scrapfaggot Green for United Press hurried an Irish expert on leprechauns, Dr. D. J. G. MacSweeney. Admittedly, witches were a little out of his line, but the doctor went to work with Celtic canniness, came up with a report-on Publican Sykes. "He is an upstanding citizen . . . but, I fear, a man with a glass in his eye for business. . . . All the witnesses were customers of his pub. . . . The witch legend is a matter for hooting and disbelief in adjoining Little Waltham. Little Walthamites in road crews assure me they have moved the stone a score of times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On Scrapfaggot Green | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...same five that faced Andover Saturday will be the starters tonight. At forwards will be Hal Lubchansky and Don MacSweeney, while Fran Simpson and Bud James will fill the guard posts. Homer Peabdy will hold down the pivot position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1941 Cagers Try for Sixth Win Over Dummer Academy | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...half-time, the count was only 9-6, with the Freshmen leading, but in the fourth period May at center for the visitors tipped in two rebounds for the visitors, giving them the lead 18-16. Yardling starters were Lub Lubchansky and Don MacSweeney, forwards, Homer Peabody, center and Fran Simpson and Bud James guards

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE UPSETS FAVORED CRIMSON QUINTET 35-33 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...when he was arrested by the spectacle of a burgher emptying a tall stein of beer in one prodigious gulp. In his admiration the General spared the town and wooden figures in the clock tower re-enact the Meistertrunk each noon to gaping posterity in the square below. Jeremiah, MacSweeney, and a large company of well known hermits, on the other hand, increased their reputations by consuming a perilous minimum. But naturally in both courses the attendant circumstances are of importance. What seems to happen more often than not is that the amateurs end as saints, the professionals as freaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEROES OF THE GULLET | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

| 1 |