Word: padraic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whirl of rumors, complaints, offers, conjectures, and lawsuits. Was Dempsey eligible to fight Tunney before he had fought black Harry Wills? The New York State Boxing Commission thought he was; the New York License Committee thought otherwise, refused to issue a license. Tex Rickard, promoter, thought he was; Padraic Mullins, manager of Wills, disagreed. Attorney General Albert Ottinger was asked to write opinions on points of law that would aforetime have been left to the bartender. Meanwhile at Saratoga Dempsey, growing rapidly browner and harder, continued to train, sometimes slipping off in the afternoon to see the horses run. Forty...
...FORGE IN THE FOREST-Padraic Colum - Macmillan ($2.25). Celtic fairy tales for those children with brilliant imaginations...
...Butler Yeats, whose death last year took from us one of the most delightful personalities of Greenwich Village, or Dudley Digges and J. M. Kerrigan, actors both from the Dublin boards. Of all these, the most thoroughly of the spirit and heart of Ireland seems to me to be Padraic Colum himself, looking for all the world like an elf, the best modern writer of fairy stories in my opinion and a poet of eminence, a novelist, an essayist, a playwright...
This spring Padraic (or Patrick as one might call him if one dared) is at the MacDowell Colony for writers, in Peterboro, N. H. Last year, commissioned by the Hawaiian Government, he studied the folk tales of the island and reproduced them in his fascinating prose. I believe that Colum's residence in America and his fondness for us, has been a precious addition, for more than any other quality, it seems to me, our writers lack the sense of mystic fantasy, of homely beauty, of child-like imagery that this Peter Pan-like Irishman...
...GOLDEN FLEECE-Padraic Colum-Macmillan ($2.00). The cycle of Greek legends that concern Jason and the rest of his varsity crew most admirably retold for children by a poet and artist...