Word: neill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS. The genius of Eugene O'Neill digs around in the rocky tragedy of a New England triangle-the young bride, the old husband, the young stepson...
...monarchy, she might elect to have an English King and be part of a dual mon- archy. Or she might ask one of the English princes to renounce his allegiance and be her King. Or even some lad of the name of O'Brien or O'Neill might wear the Irish crown. "The Irish King might even be a Spaniard. There is the Duke of Tetuan, for instance. He is The O'Neill, a descendant of the great O'Neill who fled to the Continent with the flight of the Wild Geese,* if you will recall...
...town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak no English." Later he was styled "Prince of Wales," and the title has persisted. *The well-known "flight of the Earls," which took place in 1607, while James V was of Tyrone (Hugh O'Neill) and Tyrconnel the two most powerful men in Ireland, leaders of the resistance, fled Ireland with their wives, children and retainers, thus marking the doom of the Celtic cause...
...Charles L. Kilpatrick 1000 yards handicap, A. H. O'Neill '28, starting from scratch placed second to Swinburne of Georgetown to whom he conceded 20 yards. Hobart Betts of Princeton, the other scratch man was easily beaten by O'Neill...
...GLENCAIRN-Further plays of O'Neill. These are the earlier sea stories, written when his talent first began to stir and stretch its salty vigor in the Theatre...