Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Dublin's Department of Agriculture Building last week strode a 78-year-old, tall, erect, walrus-mustached Gaelic scholar. There, flanked by Eire Ministers, high court justices and Parliament leaders, this poet, playwright and author, Dr. Douglas Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party...
...example, the everyday behavior of a great artist is likely to resemble ham acting. Wilfrid Lawson, a spectacular and accomplished performer,* is no ham actor...
...mere Victorian period piece surviving to a cynical and indifferent age. Born in London in 1852, he was brought up by his Spanish grandmother and his Scotch father, lived through enough careers in his 84 years to make such celebrated literary men of action as Doughty or Wilfrid Blunt seem sedentary by comparison. Leaving school before he was 17, he sailed to South America, traded in cattle and mules, traveled across Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, learned to ride like a Gaucho and usually lived like one. At 27 he married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose...
...King Edward VII . . . held to the high standards set by his illustrious mother." But humanitarians like Wilfrid Scawen Blunt who protested against diplomatic blunders which were leading up to the World War were put in jail...
...members quietly and efficiently on the move, their minds sharp, their spirits obedient, their black-cassocked persons unattached to any one locality (see p. 30). Last May time came for a change in the editorship of the Jesuits' able weekly, America, run for eleven years by Rev. Wilfrid Parsons S. J. This slight, grey-haired father yielded his place to Rev. Francis Xavier Talbot S. J., lecturer and bookman. Last week Father Parsons was appointed professor of European history at Georgetown University's graduate school, turned up there at once...