Word: leitrim
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...Republicans got there first. Some 800 of them, scowling young men from the hills of Leitrim and neighboring counties, came into town with slouch hats pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands. They went systematically about the business of keeping the Orangemen out of Cootehill. One squad wrecked the meeting hall. Others tore up the railway lines between Coote hill and Ballybay, and near Clones. Tele phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping...
...volatile Francois Descamps. On the Majestic (White Star)-Florence Easton, Metropolitan Opera singer; Samuel H. Church, President of the Carnegie Institute. On the De Grasse (French)-Joseph C. Stehlin, famed U. S. ace, with a 183-karat diamond bought from the ex-Sultan of Morocco; Florence Walton and Leon Leitrim, dancers. On the Leviathan (United States) - Henry M. Robinson, Los Angeles banker, to assist Owen D. Young in the op eration of the Experts' Plan; Warren Pershing, son of General Pershing, to attend an English public school; Jackie Coogan, cinema actor...
...France (French)?Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute; Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan; the Rev. Dr. Howard C. Robbins, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Manhattan); Fiske O'Hara, tenor; Florence Walton, dancer, with her husband and partner, Leon Leitrim (Count Karkowsky...
...Dromahair, County Leitrim, a band of republicans burnt the court house and looted the stores, carrying away quantities of foodstuffs and clothes. A fight at Headford, Galway, resulted in four rebels dead and four Free State troops wounded. At Glencar, South Kerry, another clash was reported, resulting in five rebels being killed and two being taken prisoners...
...Paralos, J. D. Parker '96. Sloops - Eleanor, A. Whiteside, Jr., '95; Sequin, G. P. Scott '96; Liris, L. C. Tuckerman '97; Rat, L. B. Valentine '97. Jib and mainsails - Kid, W. R. Peabody '95; Marjorie, W. McKittrick '96; Prima, F. N. Balch '96; Raccoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr., '95; Leitrim, T. J. Manahan '96; - , C. F. Lyman '96. Catboats - Calypso, George Derby '96; Pooh Pooh, J. C. Fairchild '96; Tycoon, J. L. Stackpole, Jr., '95; In It, R. B. Williams '96; Algol, J. R. Bullard '96; - , J. Sargent, Jr., '95. Steam yacht - Cora, D. U. Morris '96. Naptha launch...