Word: irelander
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...thrifty Britons dislike lotteries but even more they dislike seeing Britain's strict laws drive £1.000,000 a year out of Britain into Ireland. Last year His Grace the jovial, sporting Duke of Atholl ran his own disguised lottery, got £60.000 for British charities and a £25 fine for himself. To plug up the loophole he had found, the Conservative Government jammed through Parliament a new and stricter...
...behind him with Lever plants ?and plantations?picked out with tiny colored electric bulbs. When the chairman pushed one button, green lights showed the extent of Lever interests at the death of Lord Leverhulme. Red lights revealed subsequent additions. Finally all were flashed, showing 36 bulbs in Britain & Ireland, 21 on Continental Europe, 18 in Africa, eight in North America, two in South America, one at an Antarctic whaling station on the Island of South Georgia, 13 in Australasia, seven scattered through the Far East and India...
Produced by Gainsborough Pictures, filmed on a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland, Man of Aran was rehearsed, directed, filmed, developed, printed and cut by a U. S. citizen-the same Robert J. Flaherty who made a great cinema reputation with his Nanook of the North and Moana of the South Seas...
President Eamon de Valera deigned to pay his first visit to a cinema in Ireland for the film's premiere in Dublin.. Most of the Irish Free State Cabinet was also on hand. And smiling behind the fluttering ribbons of his glasses went William Butler Yeats. Man of Aran has not yet been released...
...still considered the best No. 1 in the world. He is the same age as Boeseke (38), belongs to the same club (Southern California's fashionable Midwick). Aidan Roark, rated at 8 goals, is the younger brother of Capt. 'Tat" Roark, famed British Internationalist. Born in Ireland's County Carlow, he is now a U. S. citizen, a cinema executive (Twentieth Century) in Hollywood. Forced off the team at the last moment by an attack of rheumatism was H. W. ("Rube") Williams who distinguished himself by his fine playing in the East-West games last year until...