Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the week Irish Free State news-organs published hundreds of letters from irate citizens, most of whom wanted to know why neither St. Patrick nor the Shamrock appears on any of the new coins. The Committee on Coins, which chose the designs, is chairmanned by symbol-loving Poet William Butler Yeats, winner of the Nobel Prize. Shrewd Poet Yeats offered no explanation or defense of the coins, merely observing that the designs were made by Sculptor Percy Metcalfe of Yorkshire, England, who triumphed in competition with such Masters as Paul Manship and Ivan Mestrovic...
...Professor Graves reprints articles by competent observers. Walter Lippmann, chief editorial writer for the New York World, is the most quoted man in the book. Others are Sigmund Freud, John Broadus Watson, Otto Hermann Kahn, Bruce Barton, Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Oswald Garrison Villard, Clinton Wallace (Mirrors) Gilbert, William Bennett Munro, and several dozen more...
...made her debut as a dramatic actress in Fanny. She had an operation on her hooked nose to make her better looking, but she said; "I'd rather not be beautiful. It's hard to get a line on yourself if you're beautiful." One St. Patrick's Day "Nicky" Arnstein, sought throughout the U. S. for his share in a $5,000,000 bond robbery, got into a cab at his front door and drove through a police parade to headquarters where he gave himself up. Fannie Brice paid for his defense. Although she owns...
...Archbishop O'Connell was created Cardinal in 1911. Ten years later Archbishop Denis J. Dougherty of Philadelphia was elevated to the cardinalate. The only other cardinals in the U. S., Archbishop Patrick Joseph Hayes of New V ork and Archbishop George William Mundelein of Chicago, were both elevated on March...
Although the Little Church Around the Corner could be hidden behind the leaping spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, or tucked into the crypt of Bishop Manning's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it is the most famed church in Manhattan...