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Word: saorstat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irishman drank farewell toasts with his brothers of the Saorstat Corps. Said he: "Ten-thirty is my bedtime and I refuse to crawl in earlier just because there's a little job of flying over the Atlantic to be done tomorrow." It was midnight when he finally retired, in the room next to that of his eight-year-old daughter Pat, who, he said, "doesn't give a hump about all this flying." The Germans, strange figures in Ireland, plodded back to their quarters, the Baron to play a final game of solitaire, the phlegmatic Captain to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Dublin to Labrador | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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