Word: cavan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
...Irish came dark-haired, nimble-brained Jews. Yankee families sent their sons out of the city to Andover, Exeter, Groton. Today 95% of Latin School boys are Irish or Jewish. Headmaster Joseph Lawrence Powers, a ruddy, white-thatched, billiard-playing Irishman, is the son of immigrants from County Cavan...
...more seductive than the index to Wheeler's "Science of Psychology." The subtle poison permeated the Vagabond's veins, and he found himself choosing from the shelf "The Mentality of Apes." By degrees this enticed him to "Man and Woman," to "The Freudian Wish," and then to Ruth Shoule Cavan's "Suicide." No Vagabond could abandon that shelf without a glance at "The Aesthetic Attitude," but it seemed wisest to top the selection with a hearty passage from Professor Boring's own history of psychology; in this were thirty-seven indexed subjects under the head Vision, but never a glimpse...
...Cootehill, all over County Cavan, mysterious posters appeared...
...Headquarters Cavan Brigade...