Word: seamus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the leadership of Professor Seamus O'Casey, Dublin schoolmasters last week began a campaign to have all talking pictures made in Gaelic. Said Headmaster O'Casey: "It is bad enough when a boy acknowledges an order with the reply, 'Okay, chief,' but imagine the position of a headmistress who is addressed in a nasal drawl with the words, 'Okay, baby...
...presented "an Irish girl in the situation of remaining all night with a man not her husband." Mr. Sinclair has since revisited the U. S. six times. His fifth visit was in The Merry Wives of Gotham, in which, to his displeasure, he was to take the part of Seamus O'Briskey. Bitterly Mr. Sinclair protested that there was no such name in all Ireland. The author then admitted that he had coined the name to rhyme with whiskey. Author and actor compromised on another spirit, the character became Seamus O'Tandy. Last time Actor Sinclair appeared...