Word: shamrocked
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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...
...direct descendant of two U. S. Presidents - Charles Francis Adams, 62, brother of the late historian Henry Adams. Skipper Adams, yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock. He is also treasurer of the Corporation of Harvard College and a prosperous Boston lawyer. Once, when he failed to appear at a session of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, a judge sent a man down to the sea to find him. Mr. Adams sent back the following message...
...team will probably play the Lawrence Soccer Club, the Fore River Shamrock and the Abbott Worsted team...
...after false gods and new 'isms' and 'schisms' . . . . Thousands of New York's Democracy may be Irish, but they are as good Americans as they are Democrats, and the Irishman is as jealous of his party as of the age-worn tradition of the shamrock...
...warfare than publicity led people to believe) finally with definite knowledge that the sub is still intact the paravane is streamed. The destroyer works up to speed (about four to five times the possible speed of a submarine under water) circles the area, crosses it several times, makes a shamrock course within the circle thus covering completely the whole area while the submarine is crossing it. It does not matter what depth the submarine is running the paravane is beneath it, the wire (which has electrical wires in its centre) crossing the hull of the submarine has a tendency...