Word: sligo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once. Accordingly they set up what must have been an extremely malodorous fish-drying centre. This was excavated last season by a Harvard group under Hallam Leonard Movius Jr. About this time the Irish were learning from contact with the Mediterranean civilizations to build huge mausoleums. In County Sligo another Harvard party under Hugh O'Neill Hencken unearthed a mound of stone 180 ft. long, covering five burial chambers and enclosing a sort of courtyard where funerals were probably held. The dead were cremated and buried with pottery bowls and stone tools...
...distant as she strolled inside her white picket-fence of a Sunday afternoon. One remembers Fanchon, the exotic little product of great hotels and continental schools, who actually "were her hair up" and shocked the children's party with the new Bunny Hug and Turkey Trot and Slingo Sligo Slide. Those naive and incredible days of 1912 made a story that, in retrospect, has the quaint provincialism of "Cranford...