Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nightly to hear cocky Tenor Regan sing Paddy McGinty's Goat, The Toorie on His Bonnet, and Dear Old Donegal. Warming their Irish faces at the front tables with Illinois' Governor Dwight Green, were Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelley, Judge Tom Courtney and Federal Judge Philip Sullivan (of Sewell A very-Montgomery Ward fame). Behind them were droves of Chicago's Irish cops and aldermen, and even a scattering of priests. They liked it best when Regan swung into The Same Old Shillelagh, brandishing a shellacked stick which was not the old shillelagh that his father...
There have been some charges that the entire plot was lifted from one of the early Mack Sennett comedies. The good boys (stamped by the CCA) are battling the bad boys (Micky Sullivan's cohorts). But the good boys can't agree upon a plan of action, so they are thwarted at every turn. Eventually, just when it seems sure that the bad boys have won the day, they will be confused by some daring stratagem, and virtue will reign triumphant--maybe...
...Mikado (book & lyrics by Sir W. S. Gilbert; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; produced by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company) brought to Broadway, for the first time since 1939, England's famed Gilbert & Sullivan troupe, the D'Oyly Carters. It also brought to Broadway, possibly for the first time since 1939, those dedicated spirits, those Haute-Savoyards, for whom G. & S. is not a production but a rite. For seven weeks, with a new opera every Monday, they might chirrup, gurgle, hum, keep an eye out for heresy...
...doing. Neither President Harry Truman nor the new Air Force had forgiven or forgotten Radford's angry last-ditch opposition to unification of the armed services, which he carried on even after the Navy had agreed to the merger. Defense Secretary Forrestal and Navy Secretary Sullivan had trooped to the White House to plead Radford's case, Harry Truman had stubbornly put them...
...Square, side streets languished under a layer of slush which kept traffic to a minimum, as the City of Cambridge concentrated its snow removal equipment on Massachusetts Avenue and the Central Square area. "God put it there and God will take it away," said Councilman Mickey Sullivan once more...