Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Airport five years ago, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Stan ("Postcards") Delaplane stepped up to a bar for a bracer. From the other side, he was handed a drink he had never tasted before. Delaplane inquired and got-complete with an Irishman's flair for a tale-Bartender Joe Sheridan's explanation of the origin of the drink...
...drink and the story. In his column, he wrote: " 'Twas in the old days the flying boats were landing at Foynes-about '38 I should say; the passengers would come in by launch, shivering and shaking fit to die with cold. 'Surely,' said Joe Sheridan, 'we must invent a stirrup cup for the poor souls, and them not able to put their shivering hands in their pockets for a shilling to pay unless we warm them. What is more warming,' said Joe, 'than Irish whisky, smooth as a maiden's kiss...
...Flag!" At the West Point Museum, the President pored over Custer's last battle map of the Little Big Horn country, and the courier's note that brought his last despairing cry for rein forcements. "Oh, look at this," cried the President, espying "Little Phil" Sheridan's gold-plated Winchester. Then, through an open doorway, the President spotted the flaming-sword emblem of his Supreme Headquarters in Europe, and he blurted: "Oh, by gosh, there's my old flag. I'd forgotten I sent that up here." Afterward, the President noted to a couple...
Brooks work has not only been long; it has been good. He developed divers Francis Gosling and Michael Johnson, sending the former to the Olympics in 1948 and both of them to the Games in '52. In fact, when he turned out William Gaskill, Frank Sheridan, and Bernard Kelly, all of whom hit stardom off the board, he became known as one of the country's best diving coaches...
Genevieve. Henry Cornelius' hilarious log of a trip from London to Brighton in a 1904 Darracq; with John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953; release delayed until...