Word: sinn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bishop of the Anglican Church, who carted Bernard off to Tasmania when he was an infant and proposed that Bernard follow in his churchly steps. Bernard preferred to be a soldier. He went to Sandhurst, served in World War I, later commanded a battalion of Royal Fusiliers during the Sinn Fein trouble. But he did not enjoy that. "It was my home and my people." At the age of 40 he married. A son, aged 13, goes to school in Hampshire...
Died. The Rev. Michael ("The Big Fellow") O'Flanagan, 65, towering one-time leader of the Sinn Feiners; in Dublin. A teacher, historian, lecturer, he was acting Sinn Fein leader during Eamon de Valera's imprisonment in "The Trouble" of 1916-21. Diehard Anglophobe and fiery money-raiser in the U.S., O'Flanagan attacked the Irish bishops for allegedly using their offices to thwart full freedom, was thrice suspended from the priesthood...
...crusty championship of Marxian socialism had made his modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church...
Died. Mary MacSwiney, Irish Sinn Feinnef, sister of Terence MacSwiney, onetime mayor of Cork; after long illness; in Cork. A would-be Irish Joan of Arc, she lived through many a hunger strike, unlike her brother, who died of his in 1920. To the bitter end she spurned Eamon de Valera and his compromise Free State...
...Guard were executed last year by royal decree in a blood purge - has been quietly blocked by the Führer. Here was a ready-made fifth column and Hitler was not going to let it be wiped out. The Iron Guardists, nearly all fanatical Rumanian patriots of Sinn Fein recklessness, were not men to refuse German money or refuge in Germany when they had to skip Rumania...