Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 30 rooms had been gutted by flames the roof crashed in, effectively ruining two-thirds of Hillsborough Castle. "The cause of the fire is quite unknown," announced a spokesman for the Belfast Government, spiking rumors that Free Staters might have crossed to Northern Ireland to burn down the Castle. "Apparently the cause of the conflagration was accidental...
...twelve long years Northern Ireland has had the same Governor, vastly rich and mightily aristocratic Sir James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and Knight of the Garter. When he moved into frowning Hillsborough Castle, bought at a cost of $230,000 to serve as the Governor's residence, the magnificence of his personal chattels outshone its splendor. The plate and oil paintings alone were supposed to be worth more than the castle. One day last week the Duke and Duchess were on vacation in England and so was the Private Secretary, Commander Henderson. Belatedly Sergeant Irvine, head...
...doubtless true that the Puerto Ricans who were imported into Hawaii were drawn largely from the Negro and mixed-blood elements. But if some of the surplus Negro population of Mississippi had been taken out there, not even a Northern novelist would speak of "7,000 Puerto Ricans, 10,000 Mississippians, 45,000 whites...
Then his air-cooled train rolled him off to Glacier National Park in northern Montana where he spent six hours seeing the sights. That night he paused to address all his constituents by radio. A worried country listened intently for some declaration of economic policy, some inkling of what the New Deal would deal next, some idea of what was in store for business. But of these things, the President was in no mood to talk. Instead, he gave high words to the beauties of nature...
...There is something both infantile, obscene and wicked in the eagerness with which the reactionary obscurantists have seized on the great natural calamity of a drought in the entire Northern Hemisphere as a means of destroying or discrediting the will of the American people, as expressed in Congress, for the betterment of agriculture...