Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual convention at Belfast, Ireland. Hard-bitten Ben Tillett made another speech. The years have brought power and respectability to British Labor. There were no Russian Communists at last week's meeting. One of the Trades Union's two gold watches went to a Mr. W. J. Rooney of the highly respectable American Federation of Labor. And Ben Tillett's speech was as conservative as a bowler hat. With an ideology that would have done credit to a Director of the Bank of England, erstwhile firebrand Tillett pleaded for protective tariffs, increased inter-Empire trade. Said...
HARVARD ST. BONAVENTURE Bassett, c.f. i.f., Thomas Nugent, 2b. c.f., Devers McGrath, s.s. r.f., Conlon Donaghy, 3b. s.s., Vtecht Prior, 1b. 1b., Rooney or Wood Whitney, l.f. c., O'Connor or McCormack Gilligan, r.f. 3b., Youngblood Dudley, c. 2b., Skierowski Whitmore, p. p., Haney...
...stage production fails to rise even above the standard set by the picture. A certain element of the Boston population is successfully catered to by Pat Rooney and family, while Gene Rodemich continues his sylphlike capers before his playboys...
Nebraska, South Dakota. Two tornadoes struck rural districts of Nebraska and South Dakota. Eleven were killed, among them Schoolmistress Rooney, who was tossed 300 feet. Estimated property damage...
...playwrights and U. S. big business men are unpopular with Europeans. In this, the latest addition to the Civic Repertory catalogue, a German playwright, Max Mohr, neglecting the scented graces at which his title hints, amuses himself by tossing medicine balls at the ugly face of a U. S. rooney glutton. His satire, which was immensely successful in Europe, is sophisticated and sentimental; it is probable that even the most hardened plutocrat who watches the unfolding of the myth will feel less shamed than delighted when the young lovers, scorning a rich villain's bribe, exit with laughter...