Word: maud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Married. Maud, daughter of Louis Warren Hill, granddaughter of the late great Railroader James Jerome ("Jim") Hill; and Laurence Holmes Dorcy, literary grandson of Jim Hill's good friend, Pony Express Boss Ben Holladay; in Del Monte, Calif...
...Unionist (anti-Free State) parents sent him carefully to Rugby, England's heartiest school. The inevitable Irish upshot was that Francis Stuart landed in a Dublin jail as a rioting Irish Republican. Against the wishes of both families he ran away with Iseult, niece of famed, beauteous Patriot Maud Gonne MacBride, whose husband had been executed in the 1916 rising. Now he lives in Glendalough (Dublin suburb), flies a plane, raises chickens, tries to find in his writing a harmony for the Irish soul. Backed by William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, he has just been nominated...
...after the marriage and before Sir George Hubert Wilkins worms his way under Arctic ice to reach the North Pole. Mr. Ellsworth will go with Sir Hubert and Pilot Bernt Balchen to the Antarctic to attempt a 20-hr, flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea over the Queen Maud mountains...
...patriot-litterateur. His family, Ulster Unionists, schooled him at England's rugged Rugby. He became a Roman Catholic in 1920, joined the Irish Republican Army, was taken prisoner by Free State troops during the Dublin street-fighting of 1922, interned for 15 months. He married a niece of Maud Gonne MacBride whose soldier-husband, a Boer War gallant, was executed in Dublin after the 1916 rebellion and whose son Sean is now active in Irish Republican affairs. Author Stuart lives at Glendalough (Dublin suburb). Novelist Liam O'Flaherty is his good friend. Flying is his sideline. Unpublished...
Buried. The ashes of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll, famed agnostic who died in 1899, and Mrs. Ingersoll; in Arlington National Cemetery; transferred after 33 years from the mantel piece of Daughter Maud R. Ingersoll Probasco's New York apartment. He served in the Civil War with the 11th Illinois Cavalry. In a funeral oration he once said: "We know not whether the grave is the end of this life or the door to another; whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin...