Word: ireland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most accomplished performers on the euphonium. Ernest could make men cry with his deep-throated horn. He married British-born Ann Vickers, daughter of a well-to-do businessman, who had marched to the army from the Episcopal Church. In 1914 he sailed aboard the Empress of Ireland for a London convention with 300 of Canada's top Salvationists. In a thick St. Lawrence River fog, a freighter cut the Empress in two; she capsized and 200 of the Salvationists were among the 1,024 passengers and crewmen who drowned. But Ernest, a powerful swimmer, survived...
...power in the labor world was once undisputed, clearly resented being crowded by what seemed to them young upstarts, with pushing ways, loud ties and big, expensive cigars. They were annoyed especially when Mike Quill, truculent boss of the U.S. Transport Workers and a professional Irishman, blurted that Northern Ireland was "a slave state...
...last week, Lange's shop was 70% rebuilt, and he had finally been able to fill the last of his back orders. To Barber Charles Liddy of Castleblayney, Ireland, who had sent in a paid-up order in 1939, Lange shipped six new Solingen razors. Included in the shipment was a note: Wagner & Lange, it said, were sorry about the unavoidable delay...
...speeches. What ever you would expect a politician to say in an address, you can rest assured that Curley won't say it; instead of sonorous praises for the Irish Republic, Curley gave, on the night of DeValera's visit to Boston, a witty and fascinating short history of Ireland. Of course, he stuck in a little campaigning before he was through, but that being an election year, he just couldn't resist...
...Monday the students--Thomas O. Nevison '51, Donald W. Ireland '52, and William V. H. Mason '51--altruistically built a thick gravel sidewalk over the swampland of upper Plympton Street, in front of the Harvard Auto Company...