Word: shillalahing
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...with a "puddy hat," and he clapped it on his head. They called his attention to a clay pipe stuck in the brim, and he cried that he accepted it as a tribute to his chief, that inveterate pipe smoker, Premier Baldwin. They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah. And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."* Finally, in Ulster Hall, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He was Winston Spencer Churchill, idolized as "Winnie," respectfully deferred to as Chancellor of the British Exchequer, once (1911-15) First...