Word: irelander
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...years, John Francis Dee, formerly of Ireland, has been delivering the daily quota of mail to Beck Hall and the residents along Harvard Street...
...Lord Oxford and Asquith succeeded Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as Liberal Premier (1908) ; abolished the veto power of the House of Lords (1911) ; forced through home rule for Ireland (1914) causing such fury in Ulster that Britain was saved from civil war only by the distraction provided by the World War. He was unhorsed as Premier (1916) by Lloyd George who cleverly made it appear that Britain's early defeats in the World War were due to Asquithian blundering. He lost his seat in the Commons (1918) as Premier Lloyd George swept the country with his "Hang the Kaiser...
...appointed Lord Bishop of London at the early age of 43 upon nomination by the Crown after four years of a lesser episcopacy. Until that time he had been working in Bethnal Green, London, a slum district, full of immigrants, threaded with crooked little streets that began in Ireland and ended in Palestine; he had started the Oxford Settlement, a social centre whose purpose it was to apply Oxford methods of tempered decency to roughs, toughs, hooligans. He read of his appointment on top of a bus, and looked dismally forward to the time when he would be forced...
...perhaps a thousand people stood about, shivering in overcoats. The morning was not so chilly, but they were excited. In a, few minutes this plane would rush down a long, specially built dirt runaway, lift into the air, skim, climb, circle and head off for the Atlantic, Newfoundland, Ireland, Paris...
...Civilized countries where women do not have the right to vote: Belgium, Spain, Italy, Jugoslavia, Japan Women's suffrage exists in only 28 states: Eng land, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, British East Africa, Rhodesia, Jamaica, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Rumania, Serbia, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the United States, Poland, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine...