Word: teacherish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, teacherish shamrock waver from Dublin did not rise to oppose the entry of Russia. He endorsed it but rose to champion the idea that the few small nations still opposed should be invited to air their views in open assembly. Shaking a bony finger at his pet aversion, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, and at M. Barthou, the Free State's de Valera cried: "The whole question of procedure should be properly considered, instead of in hotel rooms. . . . What is it reasonable for Russia to expect? She naturally wants to assure herself before applying for membership that...
...friend to such violence, President de Valera, tall, teacherish and full of ideal?. made in the Dail Eireann last week one of the handsomest apologies ever offered by a chief executive to a mere deputy. Fortnight ago the President had accused Deputy Mulcahy, onetime Free State Defense Minister of going to Glasgow for a secret conference with British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham-an act that would stink of treason to the nose of any Irishman...
James Ramsay MacDonald, glowing inspirer of many a conference, received a cold douche shortly before he left London, was visited at No. 10 Downing St. by intense, teacherish President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. In five minutes the Scotsman and the Irishman had disagreed flatly concerning the Free State's right to abolish her Deputies' oath of fealty to England's King. Tight-lipped and hard-eyed, President de Valera left for Dublin and the Prime Minister's car sped from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace. As he has done several times before...
...Great Britain will retaliate by refusing to renew the tariff preferences she now grants to the Free State. Obviously the timing of this threat was such as to enrage the Irish Senate just before it voted. It increased the chances that the bill would pass. Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said...
...would welcome expulsion from the British Commonwealth of Nations," earnestly announced tall, teacherish President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State last week. "Expulsion would make us stand on our own feet now, just as we shall have to do later...