Word: orangemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That age-old gratuitous insult to our Holy Father is not unknown among bitter anti-Catholics like the Orangemen of Belfast or renegade Catholics of whom Hitler and Goebbels are two up-to-the-minute specimens...
...Jayvees took the Syracuse boat for the second time this year by an expected length and left the Big Red Junior Varsity and Penn straggled along in that order. From the flying start to the finish the Jayvees rowed their own race and maintained a satisfactory lead over the Orangemen...
...thing is absolutely certain and that is that the Syracuse crew will be out for blood as far as Cornell is concerned, and there is every reason to believe that the Orangemen will stay well up in the race. In fact a finish with all three beats within the length of a shell is quite possible...
Normally the Orangemen of Northern Ireland are fanatical adherents of the Crown, regard it as a Protestant bulwark protecting them from their Catholic enemies in the Free State. First with astonishment, then with fury, Belfast Orangemen read a recent prognostication in Reynolds Illustrated News of London that the new King-Emperor may assert himself by trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII...
Brownstone Fronts and Saratoga Trunks includes accounts of the Draft Riots, the Gold Corner, the opening of the Atlantic Cable, the bloody street-war between the Fenians and Orangemen. But it is principally memorable for its items of unessential information which throw an oblique light on the times. Thus, Author Brown records that William Cullen Bryant introduced one speaker at Cooper Union as "a lawyer well known in the West, Mr. A. Lincoln." Lincoln's principal problem at that moment was to straighten out the affairs of his son, Robert, who had just flunked his examinations at Harvard. When...