Word: sligo
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...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...
Fifty-eight years old, he was born, according to different authorities, either in Sligo (the wildest part of western Ireland), or in Dublin. His father, an artist, died a year ago in his Manhattan home...
...Dublin there was intermittent revolver, rifle and machine gun firing, following an explosion which blew up the entrance of a. cinema theatre. General Boffin (known as the Irish De Wet), one of the irregular leaders, was captured by Free State troops operating from Sligo. ¶The Republicans ambushed a military party at Kyle. Three Free Staters were wounded and four irregulars killed...