Word: irelander
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...factory which Mr. Ford will not own is being built to build Fords by the Soviet Government in Russia. The Fordson Tractor factory is at Cork, Ireland. But in Europe proper Mr. Ford owns only sales offices and assembly plants...
Early in the War "F. E." jumped from Ireland to France (as so many hotheads did), won mention in despatches and the rank of Major in the King's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, was recalled to London by Lord Kitchener to advise the Government in ticklish court-martial cases, presently became Chief Censor...
Gallop to Woolsack. Battling Protestant that he was, "F. E." fought the granting of "home rule" to Ireland before the War?for this would have meant rule of Irish Protestants (Ulstermen) by Irish Catholics. When violence seemed the only way to head off home rule, the prizefighter's grandson went to Ireland as chief aide to Sir Edward Carson, dashed about fomenting shenanigans at such a rate that admiring Irish nicknamed him "The Galloper...
...husband." Mr. Sinclair has since revisited the U. S. six times. His fifth visit was in The Merry Wives of Gotham, in which, to his displeasure, he was to take the part of Seamus O'Briskey. Bitterly Mr. Sinclair protested that there was no such name in all Ireland. The author then admitted that he had coined the name to rhyme with whiskey. Author and actor compromised on another spirit, the character became Seamus O'Tandy. Last time Actor Sinclair appeared in the U. S. (1927) he took part in two well-received plays by Sean...
Died. Patrick Joseph Tuohy, 36, able one-armed painter of the Irish artistic revolution, for five years a student under Sir William Orpen who called him "the best painter Ireland has produced in generations"; by his own hand, in Manhattan, where he had lived for four years...