Word: ulsterman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero of Britain last week. He was the man who, for the first time in World War II, had routed a German Army. He is an austere man, the son of a bishop and the grandson of Dean F. W. Farrar, who wrote a life of Christ. An Ulsterman, born in County Donegal, he was marked for the clergy. He went into the Army, but the mark of his religious upbringing is still deep in him. His hero is Oliver Cromwell, who also smote his enemies and praised God. At Dunkirk Bernard Montgomery told...
...time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, 54-year-old Ulsterman, who is merciless, almost brutal. In the two of them Rommel might indeed have met his equals...
Alexander succeeds Auchinleck in the over-all command of the Middle East. Under him, in direct command of the Eighth Army in Egypt, he has Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, a 54-year-old Ulsterman who is also a veteran of the retreat from France. But, like Wavell and Auchinleck (who at the last held both the area and army commands), Alexander is responsible for victory or defeat...
About a year and a half ago Ulsterman Louis MacNeice, who has written an Irish lion's share of grade-A contemporary English verse, came to the U.S. to earn a quiet living and see what he could...
Boyd's Daughter (by St. John Ervine, produced by Copley Productions). Last week the angry Ulsterman who once spent a choleric period as drama critic of the late New York World gave Manhattan a little play which is practically a complete definition of the word wholesome...