Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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This versatile and famous Irishman, now in his sixties, came from a poor family. His early ambition to be a painter could not be fulfilled, because it would mean long study in schools and much money to support him. His family could not afford this, and Russell went to work in an accounting office. He was not able to take up painting until he was over forty years...
George F. Babbitt, of Zenith, Illinois, has won for American Sinclair Lowis the Noble prize for literature. Irishman Bernard Shaw and Indian Rudyard Kipling are the only other English writing authors to be raised by these letters of nobility. This graceful gesture to contemporary American literature is something of a compliment. The United States is not usually looked upon as a nation of letters...
Calvin Coolidge has his thousands and Al Smith his tens of thousands. That one is an enigmatic Yankee and the other a simple Irishman is far more important to their followers than the issues which they personify. In the not too distant past these men held of flee. They were symbols of the beliefs of two great parties, a fact which now means little to the cheering multitudes it is enough that they were something...
...London, the probated will of a Mr. Doherty, Irishman who lived and died in Lagos, West Africa, revealed that he had made his 16 Negro wives, his 50 half-caste children beneficiaries of a $3,000,000 estate. Besides a money legacy, each wife received a house...
...Irish Free State, impatient, has passed a law barring any Irishman from exercising his right to appeal from a decision of the Irish Free State Supreme Court to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London?which is in fact the Empire Supreme Court. Last week the Constitutional Committee of the Imperial Conference, far from frowning on Ireland's action, seemed disposed to try and escape from the necessity of constituting an "Empire Tribunal" by pointing out to other dominions that they could do what the Free State has done...