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Word: stuarts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...care what sentence I get," said Prisoner Peter Stuart in the dock of a London court last week, "because the fight will go on." Peter got 15 years. Michael Joseph Mason got 17. Seven of their friends got 59½ among them. Their crime: being good soldiers of the Irish Republican Army-i.e., bomb-planters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: I.R.A. Ire | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...bomb's heavy thud. Part of the News-Chronicle office crumbled. No one was hurt but. when the presses were stopped, it was discovered that one story they had been running off was a gloating little piece about Michael Joseph Mason's 17-year sentence, Peter Stuart's 15 years, and their seven friends who got 59 ½ among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: I.R.A. Ire | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...holders of tickets on Workman in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes drawing, it was a marvelous race indeed. All but the four who had sold half interests to soft-soaping, sixtyish Sidney Freeman (representing Douglas Stuart, Ltd., last week in Manhattan) stood to collect $141,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Over Aintree Meadow | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Stuart Friedkin '42 when informed of the official requirement exclaimed, "My God, we're being crucified. Thank Heavens it only costs $50 to change a course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECTION MEN ASK HISTORY I NOTES FROM IRATE YARDLINGS | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Late Plums | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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