Word: shillalah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight for his lost leadership, but there was too much against him. He made Edmund Leamy editor of his Dublin paper, United Ireland, had to raid its offices twice in 24 hours to recapture it from an anti-Parnellite force. The Catholic Church turned almost solidly against him. Shillalah-bearing hecklers turned his meetings into free-for-alls by shouting "Tim Healy's Battle Cry"-"Three Cheers for Kitty O'Shea!" Only the faithful few still followed their lost leader, but when he died, worn out by his hopeless fight, 50,000 Dubliners marched behind his coffin. After...
...hair. When they heard that his No. 1 foe. bullet-headed General Owen O'Duffy. founder of the United Ireland opposition party, was rallying his blue-shirted Irish Fascists to a meeting in the little Kerry town of Tralee by the sea, they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand, the heft of a handful of rock in the other and tramped into Tralee. When they saw the Blue Shirts coming they flung their rocks, howling ''Up de Valera!", "O'Duffy is a traitor!", then ducked in for the shillalah work. Some of them...
According to the notice on the bulletin board the committee will have among the guests of honor, Patrick (Saint), ocC of Maudlin College, Dublin. Patrick played left shillalah for the Maudlin Maroons. Arrangements have been made to have special dinners served in the Dining Hall betwen 5.30 and 8 o'clock for House members and their guests. Tickets are on sale at $3 per couple, $2 for stags. Dancing will last from 10.15 until 3 o'clock. The House Committee consists of: Harper Woodward 2L, chairman, J. G. Brooks, '34, R. B. Cutler '35, J. L. Hoguet...
Encouraged by the performance of his charges in the 13-2 shillalah fest against the New Hampshire Wildcats last Thursday, Coach Mitchell will send the Harvard baseball team against Dartmouth at Hanover today in the hopes of continuing his 100 per cent record of victory against the Big Green...