Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoky Belfast last week hulking Premier Viscount Craigavon, who looks like an oldtime hotel detective and stands solidly for the allegiance of Northern Ireland ("Ulster") to the British Crown, rumbled: "Ulster again is assured of five years of a resolute and settled government. I shall carry on, encouraged by the victory over the destructive elements arrayed against our imperial stronghold...
None other than Craigavon's bitterest enemy, President de Valera of the Irish Free State (Southern Ireland), was elected a member of the Northern Ireland Parliament by the constituency of South Down. This kar-rumpf in his own puddle by a frog bigger than himself immensely shocked Craigavon. But it was no new thing. Favoring de Valera's croaking for a union of Northern with Southern Ireland, in 1921 and 1925 South Down elected him their member. Then a private citizen, he was barred both times from crossing the border. Now the head of a neighbor state...
...itself with a very brief, but critical, episode in the lives of three people. Two are former French soldiers, just released from the service and about to sail for Canada; the other is Therese, a pretty barmaid in a small wineshop near the docks of a seacoast town in northern France...
...University of Minnesota and Harvard Law School has made his way by personal brilliance. He joined the conservative Manhattan law fir in of Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed-shirt, he leans toward the liberal side on economic questions, is familiar with (and discourses ably on) a wide range of modern economic thought. Last week accompanied by Mrs. Bailie (a professional landscape architect, daughter of Lawyer Henderson) their three children and French poodle, Jasper...
...patio living room of a house in northern California the boys tell Jean Rouverol that it is time she stopped trying to play with them. Four months later she is trying out high heels and inquiring why it is bad form to tell a boy outright she would like to see him. Junior Durkin, having grown rapidly out of the adolescent stage of wanting "a mother for my children," is captivated by a giggling siren. The Mclntyres give an ice cream and punch party at which both brother and sister find sex arduous. As "something outstanding" to attract his siren...