Word: sean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KNOCK AT THE DOOR-Sean O'Casey -Macmillan...
...Sean O'Casey is the author of Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, many another realistically wild Irish play about the lives of Ireland's poor. Less successful is this "autobiography," which covers only the first twelve years of his life. Gist: "Well, he'd learned poethry and had kissed a girl ... if he hadn' gone into the house, he had knocked at the door...
...League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig is Dr. Karl Burckhardt, a Swiss professor of law whom Führer Hitler, in his last speech, called "incidentally a man of extraordinary tact." Dr. Burckhardt's "tact" consists largely of a do-nothing silence. Unlike his predecessor, fiery Sean Lester of Eire, who barked long and hard about the Nazis' repeated violations of Danzig's Constitution, Commissioner Burckhardt has uttered public words in Danzig only once and then subtly to quote from an inscription on a Danzig building: "The high things must be kept high...
Visitors at the New York World's Fair:* Sean T. O'Kelly, Vice President of the Executive Council of Eire, who prophesied: "I don't think there's a ghost of a chance of Ireland's fighting for anyone if she can get out of it"; Nicaragua's burly President-Dictator Anastasio Somoza; San Francisco's Mayor Angelo J. Rossi; Wooster, Ohio's Mrs. Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson...
Death Is So Fair ranks far below masterpieces of the Irish Civil War like Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer or the stories of Sean O'Faolain. But it has a peculiar, acrid flavor, as harsh as the smell of rifle fire, which stamps Author D'Alton as a novelist of individuality and power. It tells of the war with the Black & Tans-ambushes, traps, the killing of spies and suspected spies-in battles that were more like U. S. gangfights than like civil war. Kilfoyle was a master of such tactics; Considine was horrified...