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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Celia Shanagher and Mrs. Bridget McAnulty, the same that run the Green Bay, they wouldn't tell on a duke, now, but they could drop a gentle hint, like, to some of the neighbors. So by the time the navy boys come back for their snack, the population has turned up in such multitudes it takes the Civic Guards to hold them back. Down sits the duke and his friends to a mess of tomato soup, salmon, steak, eggs, chips, fish, jelly, pears, cream, coffee and cheese the like of which Buckingham Palace hadn't seen since Paddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Border Raid | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...death of the last surviving witness in the trial was reported last week. Maid Bridget Sullivan, who died in Butte, testified that when she came upon Miss Lizzie shortly after the murders, her hair was in order and there were no bloodstains on her dress. That testimony helped clear Lizzie Borden-even though gossip about her never died, living on in a well-known jingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Murder at the Met | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York flew to California for a ten-day vacation, gladdened the heart of Actor Pat O'Brien by standing as godfather to O'Brien's infant daughter, christened Kathleen Bridget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Born. To Pat O'Brien, 46, soft-hearted tough guy of the screen, and Eloise Taylor O'Brien, 43, onetime Broadway actress: their first child of their own (three adopted), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Kathleen Bridget. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 17, 1946 | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...Baffling Bridget. Educated at Vassar, Johns Hopkins, a London hospital, Manhattan's Bellevue and various baby hospitals, Dr. Dodge became an expert on rheumatic fever, taught pediatrics at New York University's Medical School, had a private Manhattan practice on the side. Resoundingly successful in her profession, she has met less success at the poker table and was baffled in the case of Bridget, a ten-year-old Briton whom she took in during the blitz. Bridget, though a nice child, proved many child-care textbook theories wrong, taught the child expert a good deal about children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bostonian in Greece | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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