Word: spalpeen
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...fitting choice" for President, and there were few in Ireland to disagree. His possible successor as Taoiseach: Deputy Prime Minister Sean Lemass, able Minister for Industry and Commerce. A golf-playing, hard-driving executive of French ancestry, Lemass was the youngest man in the garrison, a mere spalpeen, at the Dublin General Post Office during the 1916 Rising. The story goes that a British officer, after the surrender, kicked him in the backside and told him to go home because he was too young to have fought. De Valera's right-hand man for a quarter of a century...
...subject. The author of "The Pickle of the Past," with a frank disclaimer of anything that makes for sentimentalism, gets down to the hardpan of wholesome boyish sentiment in a way that ought to delight his contemporaries; as it certainly will their fathers and uncles. "Cragan the Spalpeen" shows touches of Celtic with and spirit such as the author, if we may judge by his name, comes honestly by. The metre of line eleven halts badly and is easily amended. The author of "The Lecture-Tasters" is moderately funny; but here and there he is led too far astray...
Francis Fisher, of the class of 1903, was drowned off Sea Girt, N. J., on the night of July 14 last. He was cruising on the yacht Spalpeen, which was run down in a fog by the Clyde liner Benefactor, on that night. Fisher climbed aboard the Benefactor without accident, but in trying to return to the yacht, fell into the sea and was carried astern by the tide. He kept afloat for several minutes, and asked that a boat be put down for him. This was not done, but instead the Benefactor was backed up toward...
There was no sich a quare spalpeen...
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